Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:02:39 +0800 From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Midi and Music Composition on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CALM2mEk8UV_0fQOO8Pm3tsRX91x1bCDisFT6sx=_uhTWkhqu8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi guys I don't know if this has been beaten to death but I want to ask. I saw this thread on the forums: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/13998/ and while I am not really willing to leave FreeBSD to go anywhere. I just got here; even though I am having apple specific hardware issues. I really like the simplicity of FreeBSD and plan to stick around. I am a meddling developer whose made some games, and apps as well as some other larger software projects. With all of that out of the way. I would like to make Midi and synths work on FreeBSD but it seems like they are pretty much all tied to Jack or ALSA which kinda sucks in FreeBSD land. I don't need complicated tools to make music and don't mind building more complicated tools as I go but to be honest I don't know where to start. I really liked seq24: http://www.filter24.org/seq24/ but it has a license that, well.... Anyways if I could start with something as simple as that, which would allow me to record midi data. I have an Akai mpk mini mp2 that I can use. This could touch on a lot of different aspects from writing device drivers up to writing programs and then actually composing music. Which I think would be really awesome. even with something as simple as something like seq24 up and running and zynaddsubfx up and running I could start making music but as it stands right now I cannot, why? Because they both rely on JACKD and even though I've installed jack and run it as root user and all applications as root user they just don't seem to see each other and are able to connect. I am willing to do the heavy lifting here, if I can get some guidance from this list from time to time. Is this list active, anyone here with experience who might see some flaws in what I've already written above and can point me in the right direction? I've already looked at the oss development guide v4 and while I am not a sound programmer, I can follow what's going on. So, any feedback to get started?
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