Hi! On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:45:27PM +0200, Thomas M?ller wrote: > i'm new to beast, and still a little bit overwhelmed by the possibilities, > but > it seems to offer very interesting possibilities. > > But I already have problems connecting my midi-keyboard to the system. > Normally I use jack to connect midi-keyboard to rosegarden/qsynth/amsynth or > whatever im using, which works fine.. but it seems beast is not yet > jack-capable. > > I tried to start the midi-test.bse, but it remains silent (pcm works, tested > it with an oszilator). > The Faq pointed me to another site ( The Linux MIDI-HOWTO ), which recommends > using aconnect to connect softsynth and mididevices, but beast doesnt appear > in aconnect, so i don't know how to connect. > > Can you please give me some hints on how to connect midi-keyboard to beast? > Thanks in advance.
You can use the ALSA virtual midi device kernel module. It is called snd-virmidi. After loading it, you can tell beast to receive midi events from the virtual midi device (starting beast -m /dev/midi<something>), and connect the midi keyboard to the virtual midi device. A detailed description can be found here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html and some beast specific advice in the german article here: http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2003/11/032-beast/ Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan _______________________________________________ beast mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast
