From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 21:49:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF13D106564A for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:49:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe06.swip.net [212.247.154.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5C98FC1A for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:49:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=qXKzeD6azB5i6S50SX8A:9 a=VaTUoyF4FRkcLgs6_GYbxH_-jHQA:4 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: from [193.217.167.134] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO [10.0.0.249]) by mailfe06.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.6) with ESMTPA id 1170234854; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:49:03 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:51:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <494EA098.20808@next.online.no> In-Reply-To: <494EA098.20808@next.online.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812212251.22022.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: Tore Lund Subject: Re: MIDI input device X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:49:06 -0000 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.