From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 7 09:48:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F91CFE9 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:48:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@bitfrost.no) Received: from mta.bitpro.no (mta.bitpro.no [92.42.64.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C94F91398 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.bitfrost.no (mail.bitfrost.no [46.29.221.36]) by mta.bitpro.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C49B7A133; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 11:48:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at bitfrost.no Received: from laptop015.hselasky.homeunix.org (cm-176.74.213.204.customer.telag.net [176.74.213.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hanspetter) by mail.bitfrost.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41D63202D6; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 11:48:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51B1ACAD.5010505@bitfrost.no> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:49:33 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky Organization: Bitfrost A/S MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shane Ambler Subject: Re: jack midi and lmms References: <51B1AB31.9020304@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <51B1AB31.9020304@ShaneWare.Biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:48:13 -0000 On 06/07/13 11:43, Shane Ambler wrote: > From my earlier post I get the idea that while usb-midi on freebsd may > technically work it doesn't fit into the standard midi device lists so > doesn't "just work" like an old midi device. I'm not sure what midi > device support used to be like with sound cards but it appears that > traditional midi support is not very common. > > It looks like jack is the only usb-midi support that we have, which > currently means hydrogen is the only app supporting it (apart from the > jack examples) > > So I have started adding jack midi support to lmms. I have basic midi > input mostly working - that is soundfont and zynaddsubfx cause lmms to > freeze on jack-midi input but all others appear to work fine. > > Anyone interested in helping/debugging? Am I the only one that wants to > use this? Is there any interest in jack midi support for other apps? Hi Shane, This sounds very interesting. You know there are many examples how you can do the JACK MIDI interface part, like jack_umidi, jack_ghero, jack-keyboard etc, in ports. I'm not an expert about the LMMS MIDI subsystem, but would like to test any patches! --HPS