Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 20:00:43 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using a midi keyboard with FreeBSD (jack update, ardour3 alpha...) Message-ID: <20110901180043.GA5319@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110831230131.GA60999@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20110831230131.GA60999@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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Small update: On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:01:31AM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > So I was looking for midi software that could work with a midi > keyboard on an usb midi interface (snd_uaudio, /dev/umidi0.0), and > found that at least both rosegarden and musescore only know alsa seq > interfaces (which we don't have nor emulate on FreeBSD), not raw > midi (I'm not sure there's a difference between alsa raw midi and > oss raw midi) I then found audio/lmms which appears to support > oss midi, but couldn't get it to work with my interface (and also > found it cannot export midi, only save in its own private fileformat.) > I even tried to update lmms to the latest release (I'd need to clean > that up before it would be ready for public consumption), but then... > > I found that the 3.0 alpha versions of Ardour... > > http://ardour.org/node/4532 > http://ardour.org/a3_features > http://ardour.org/a3_features_midi > http://ardour.org/a3_features_midi_editing > http://www.archive.org/details/Introduction_to_Ardour_3.0_MIDI > > ...have grown midi support, _and_ ardour uses jack for both midi > output and input so I could use my keyboard with audio/jack_umidi. > Well, so now I have a first preliminary port of 3.0alpha10 svn > r10000: (same revision as the Linux binaries on their site) > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/ardour-3.0alpha10-preliminary.patch > > (apply on top of the current audio/ardour in the portstree) > > This needs a newer version of audio/jack so I updated that too: > (please test this update even if you don't use ardour or midi) > > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/jack-0.120.1.patch > > TODO: > > - Test (and possibly fix) the VST stuff (it uses wine and thus probably > only works on i386 and I'm on amd64 so I didn't attempt to build it.) > - Fix the port so it respects C{,XX}FLAGS? (it now uses waf which > seems to ignore them.) > - Add slv2 support and test it (would at least need updating audio/slv2 > because ardour3 needs slv2 >= 0.6.4 .) audio/slv2 was updated yesterday so I added the dependencies and verified the port still passes tb: http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/ardour-3.0alpha10-preliminary2.patch I don't have any lv2 plugins tho so I can't test this... > - More missing features? > - Add knob to build release version and/or strip the installed > objects? (/usr/local/lib/ardour3 is currently 1.6G, the build > dir work/ is 3.7G. It appears tho you can run the build from > below the work/ dir without installing it by invoking: > > work/ardour-3.0alpha10_10000/gtk2_ardour/ardev > > ) > - Test! (are the Ardour devs interested in FreeBSD bugreports? > I don't know. :) What I do know is they don't want the alphas > discussed in their webforums, qoute: > > -------snip----------- > This is an alpha version of Ardour 3.0. > > You are respectfully requested NOT to ask for assistance with build issues > and not to report issues with Ardour 3.0 on the forums at ardour.org. > > Please use IRC, the bug tracker and/or the ardour mailing lists (-dev or -user) > > Thanks for your co-operation with our development process. > -------snip----------- > > Enjoy, :) > Juergen > > PS: The export function in the gui doesn't work for midi tracks, but > you can fork a track and after that grab a midi file out of: > > <session dir>/interchange/<name>/midifiles
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