On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Jeremie Lasalle Ratelle wrote: > Alright, I searched but didn't find anything... > > Could you wise men point me to the best choice for > an all in one usb midi mic guitar controller which > is beast compatible?
not sure what a midi-mic-guitar controller would do, guitars and mics cannot be connected to MIDI afaik. in any case, you don't need MIDI hardware to be sepcifically taylored to beast, beast can use all MIDI devices that have ALSA (or OSS) kernerl driver support. you can find a list of supported ALSA devices, including MIDI devices here: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ many, but not all USB midi devices work with ALSA. i recently got an PCR-M1 keyboard and a generic usb<->midi converter: http://www.roland.com/products/en/PCR-M1/index.html http://www.roland.com/products/en/UM-3EX/index.html both work well with ALSA. the PCR is just a bit cumbersome to use with beast at the moment because it sends events only on the second subchannel, which means i have to start beast like this: $ beast -m alsa=hw:1,0,1 FYI, here's the relevant MIDI device listing from beast, which you should get once you have successfully setup a MIDI device through ALSA: $ beast --bse-driver-list Available MIDI drivers: alsa alsa=PLUGIN:CARD,DEV,SUBDEV Advanced Linux Sound Architecture MIDI driver, using ALSA 1.0.11. The device specification follows the ALSA device naming conventions, a detailed description of which is available at the project's website: http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/midi.html Various ALSA plugins can be used here, 'hw' allows direct adressing of hardware channels by card, device and subdevice. PLUGIN - the ALSA plugin, 'default' is usually good enough CARD - the card number for plugins like 'hw' DEV - the device number for plugins like 'hw' SUBDEV - the subdevice number for plugins like 'hw' Devices (PCR - EDIROL PCR at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1, full speed): > hw:1,0 (subdevices: 3*input + 2*output) Devices (UM3EX - EDIROL UM-3EX at usb-0000:00:1d.1-2, full speed): > hw:2,0 (subdevices: 4*input + 4*output) we'll probably add a MIDI device selector to beast at some point, so subdevice selection can then be handled through the GUI. > > Thank you very much. --- ciaoTJ _______________________________________________ beast mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast
