Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 18:30:25 +1030 From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com>, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Jack'd Up MIDI Message-ID: <6eb32b28-2f32-413d-024f-43b7a1c3fae0@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <1086668052.8123577.1478385405574.JavaMail.zimbra@ixsystems.com> References: <851570759.8045937.1478355480246.JavaMail.zimbra@ixsystems.com> <1395d491-3815-a73e-bd48-11e7eb689ec1@ladisch.de> <1086668052.8123577.1478385405574.JavaMail.zimbra@ixsystems.com>
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On 06/11/2016 09:06, Matt Olander wrote: > ----- On Nov 5, 2016, at 1:33 PM, Clemens Ladisch clemens@ladisch.de > wrote: > >> Neither Jack nor alsa-lib have a MIDI driver for FreeBSD. >> >> ALSA's "RawMIDI" interface is essentially the same as the OSS MIDI >> interface, but so far nobody has bothered to write the driver. > > Thanks, Clemens! Derp, that may have been just the clue I needed. > Once I installed a known working FreeBSD midi program that picked up > /dev/umidi, jackd output changed to: new client: midipp, uuid = > 8589934597 type 2 @ 0x800813000 fd = 21 > > So...close... I have an Alesis QX49 USB MIDI keyboard, jack midi is the only thing I can get to work with USB MIDI. I use audio/qjackctl to make the connections. I use audio/jack_umidi to start a jack midi client so the keyboard shows in the available jack ports - jack_umidi -C /dev/umidi0.0 -B and I have a patch for lmms that adds jack midi support https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/pull/2038 audio/hydrogen works with jack midi. audio/zynaddsubfx can be built with jack support - start it with zynaddsubfx -I jack -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler
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