Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 07:18:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Jack'd Up MIDI Message-ID: <851570759.8045937.1478355480246.JavaMail.zimbra@ixsystems.com>
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Hello FreeBSD-Multimedians! I saw this question about FreeBSD w/MIDI in this thread: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2016-October/017299.html Actually, FreeBSD seems to make a pretty sweet Digital Audio Workstation these days and jackd/qjackctl and friends run well. It took me awhile to wire things up to the point where I had fluidsynth/qsynth actually making any noise inside Rosegarden or Ardour, but I had my guitar plugged in and was recording (with a mic for vocals on another track, ohmygosh, what!?) fairly quickly. I have the same midi-keyboard controller as the original poster: Akai MPK mini My question is...how in the heck do I use it? Docs seem scarce for midi on FreeBSD (or ancient), so I'm hoping that it's something silly that I missed/skipped or overlooked. When I plug it in: ugen0.16: <AKAI PROFESSIONAL,LP> at usbus0 uaudio3: <AKAI PROFESSIONAL,LP MPK mini, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 17> on usbus0 uaudio3: No playback. uaudio3: No recording. uaudio3: MIDI sequencer. uaudio3: No HID volume keys found. ..and a /dev/umidi3.0 device appears (yay!?). I think my Akai APC40 board is on umidi2.0. FYI, I've also got Open Broadcasting Studio going & we setup a live-streaming nginx webserver and a janky webpage for streams, which all seems to work great, so hopefully we can do some streaming/jamming/interviewing at MeetBSD in Berkeley next week ;) Can anyone point me in the right direction with this midi-madness? I was going to give Ableton & a few Guitar apps a spin in Wine since gaming with PlayOnBSD ended up being so easy. If wine introduces too much latency, I've got a bhyve setup with passthrough on the card that works (I think?). This particular boxen is: FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Jun 30 03:52:15 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC I've got an 11 and a CURRENT system, but getting jack & all the multimedia apps playing well together ended up being the path of lower resistance on 10.3. If you're curious, here's a pic of my (trainwreck) home-office: https://goo.gl/photos/n45C3gXd1apiGPMz9 Pardon the mess :D Cheers, -matto
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