Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 05:49:21 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What apps are known to work with Mat's MIDI patches? Message-ID: <20050609054921.74861b82@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20050608192629.GK32095@cnd.mcgill.ca> References: <20050608140227.71fe4db0@dolphin.local.net> <20050608192629.GK32095@cnd.mcgill.ca>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:26:29 -0400 Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote: > On Jun 08, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > I'm currently on the verge of doing one of two things; either: > > > > 1) Go out and buy an emu10k1-based soundcard, apply Mat's MIDI > > patches to my KERNEL, and see what I can do with it, or... > > > > 2) Overwrite my existing install of FreeBSD-STABLE on my amd64 box > > with the amd64 version of Gentoo Linux. > > > > The second approach, granted, is rather drastic, and one which I'd > > just as soon avoid, but I've reached the point where I simply am no > > longer willing to put up with having no MIDI support. > > > > The only reason for this post is that I'm curious about just how > > satisfactory alternative (1) above would be. Assuming a kernel > > with a properly configured MIDI port (connected to an external > > synth, of course), what applications will I be able to use with > > this? I know that many of the current MIDI applications for Linux > > require ALSA, so that rules out quite a few of them right there. So > > what's left, then? I need a lot more than just simple MIDI > > playback; I want to be able to create my own sequences, preferably > > using my MIDI keyboard as an input device. > > > > Anyone currently doing anything in this area who could offer some > > opinions? > > I'm not advocating #2 but I've yet to see anything really work > with recording with either the old or new version of midi. If someone > has contrary experience, I would love to know about it (you would not > beleive the amount of time I wasted trying to get rosegarden to work). Same here. :-) > Anthem is quite cool and I think it's the closest application out > there to working for record. Yes, it does look quite interesting. Not usable yet, but interesting. :-) > Could you point to applications that require ALSA? I wonder > what SALSA could do for us in this situation. Well, the one that comes to mind first is Rosegarden 4 (*not* the older version), which is the one I would most like to be able to use. There are others, for sure. > Playbay is the most dificult to implement, recording is quite > easy, we just haven't got there yet. Hmm, not familiar with that. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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