Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:22:33 +0100 From: Zahemszky =?ISO-8859-2?Q?G=E1bor?= <Gabor@Zahemszky.HU> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midi and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110219182233.3cfdbbbc@Picasso.Zahemszky.HU> In-Reply-To: <201102191756.28268.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20110219153731.3473.qmail@origmail.integrity.hu> <201102191756.28268.hselasky@c2i.net>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
Hi! > > If I buy a "MIDI-USB" communication cable to connect it to my (*) > > PC, will it possible to use it? Do I need to buy a special cable > > (made-by-XYZ), are there any specific drivers, or programs, with > > what I can play with it. I've seen eg OpenBSD's midish CLI program, > > but it isn't ported to FreeBSD (yet). > > > > (I use FreeBSD8 on both i386 and Amd64.) > > Hi, > > Yes, there exists plenty of USB MIDI software for FreeBSD, but not > all is in ports. The USB MIDI solution in FreeBSD is part of > snd_uaudio. Do you see any devices like /dev/umidiX.Y ? As I've written in my first mail (*), I haven't got the USB-MIDI cable yet (as I don't know, do I have to buy some specific, or any of them will be good.) So if I understand you correctly, after buying that cable, I only have to "kldload snd_uaudio", connect the drum-machine to the PC with that cable, and I'll see (OK, I have to) /dev/umidiX.Y devices? It'll be great. (I think one of the umidi device - eg. umidi0.0 - will be the MIDI-OUT/PASSTHROUGH and the other - umidi0.1 will be MIDI-IN?) Or if not, are there any documentation about it as I hadn't find it in man snd_uaudio. By the way, nowhere in "man -k midi". Does this snd_uaudio driver will give us the original Linux-like /dev/sequencer OSS-device? Or how can I use these /dev/umidi devices? And where are those "plenty of MIDI software"? (I hope, I can download and install them by hand, but of course, I'd like better them from ports.) Thanks for your quick answer! Gábor < Gabor at Zahemszky dot HU > -- #!/bin/ksh # # See my GPG key at http://www.Zahemszky.HU # Z='21N16I25C25E30, 40M30E33E25T15U!'; IFS=' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ '; set -- $Z;for i;{ [[ $i = ? ]]&&print $i&&break; [[ $i = ??? ]]&&j=$i&&i=${i%?}; typeset -i40 i=8#$i;print -n ${i#???}; [[ "$j" = ??? ]]&&print -n "${j#??} "&&j=;typeset +i i;}; IFS=' 0123456789 ';set -- $Z;for i;{ [[ $i = , ]]&&i=2; [[ $i = ?? ]]||typeset -l i;j="$j $i";typeset +l i;};print "$j"help
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110219182233.3cfdbbbc>