Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:56:28 +0100 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: Zahemszky Gabor <gabor@zahemszky.hu> Subject: Re: Midi and FreeBSD Message-ID: <201102191756.28268.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <20110219153731.3473.qmail@origmail.integrity.hu> References: <20110219153731.3473.qmail@origmail.integrity.hu>
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On Saturday 19 February 2011 16:37:31 Zahemszky Gabor wrote: > Hi! > > My children have got a drum-machine, which - of course - can speak MIDI. If > I buy a "MIDI-USB" communication cable to connect it to my PC, will it > possible to use it? Do I need to buy a special cable (made-by-XYZ), are > there any specific drivers, or programs, with what I can play with it. I've > seen eg OpenBSD's midish CLI program, but it isn't ported to FreeBSD (yet). > > (I use FreeBSD8 on both i386 and Amd64.) Hi, Yes, there exists plenty of USB MIDI software for FreeBSD, but not all is in ports. The USB MIDI solution in FreeBSD is part of snd_uaudio. Do you see any devices like /dev/umidiX.Y ? --HPS
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