From owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Sun Oct 2 20:10:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7786CAF2B25 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 20:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from mail.turbocat.net (mail.turbocat.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:d16:4514::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42D91BBF for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 20:10:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hps@selasky.org) Received: from laptop015.home.selasky.org (unknown [62.141.129.119]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.turbocat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 08B251FE022; Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Midi and Music Composition on FreeBSD To: blubee blubeeme , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org References: From: Hans Petter Selasky Message-ID: <54074b3f-bb31-fc86-ec6f-81ed4b0a66fb@selasky.org> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:14:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:10:03 -0000 On 10/02/16 16:02, blubee blubeeme wrote: > 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? Hi, Have a look at MIDIPP in /usr/ports/audio/midipp Works great with zynaddsubfx, jackd and more. --HPS