Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:14:48 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Midi and Music Composition on FreeBSD Message-ID: <54074b3f-bb31-fc86-ec6f-81ed4b0a66fb@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <CALM2mEk8UV_0fQOO8Pm3tsRX91x1bCDisFT6sx=_uhTWkhqu8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALM2mEk8UV_0fQOO8Pm3tsRX91x1bCDisFT6sx=_uhTWkhqu8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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