Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:51:21 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: Tore Lund <tl32@next.online.no> Subject: Re: MIDI input device Message-ID: <200812212251.22022.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <494EA098.20808@next.online.no> References: <494EA098.20808@next.online.no>
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On Sunday 21 December 2008, Tore Lund wrote: > Asking about MIDI here may be somewhat like flogging an absent horse. > There seems to be little if any information on mailing lists and other > forums about MIDI, so I have to ask: Does MIDI input work at all on > FreeBSD? And if so, with what sort of MIDI interface? > Hi, I have used FreeBSD-current (USB2) with an external USB MIDI adapter and several MIDI devices. The current USB2 MIDI solution is not well integrated into the FreeBSD MIDI system. What you get is a raw device to get/put MIDI commands. This basically works, but not with all MIDI applications. Depending on where you are living in Norway I can give you a personal demo :-) Hence I like playing the piano and recording using MIDI ... --HPS > I wanted to try out the software synths available on FreeBSD. So I dug > out my old Roland A30 keyboard and my SoundBlaster PCI64 card, which is > based on Ensoniq 1370 and which has a game/MIDI port. The sound card is > recognized all right by FreeBSD, but not the MIDI port - doing a "cat > /dev/midistat" gives me "No devices installed". > > It occurred to me that I should try out the rest of the synthesizer > software before going any further. Hence I installed jack-keyboard and > some of the necessary infrastructure. Following the documentation, I > first ran "jackd -d oss", then "ghostess whysynth.so" and then > "jack-keyboard". This setup works very well - makes me look forward to > trying out other synth stuff in /usr/ports/audio. > > But I need a real keyboard in order to play music. Am I missing some > command or configuration that will recognize my MIDI port as an input > device? Or, if my old SoundBlaster cannot be used, will FreeBSD pick up > any of the new USB interfaces? Thanks for any hints.
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