On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:17, Junichi Uekawa was like: > Hi > > I'd like to do some research into current state of Debian MIDI > support. The following is the different usage scenarios I have in > mind.
I'm not quite sure what you're asking for here. I'll give my usual slightly dumb user's perspective. ;) > 1. casual user playing back SMF file > > A web browser invoking some player. Handled via MIME. Currently it > probably invokes timidity, since timidty+freepats is probably the only > thing in Debian supporting GM. As a casual user, I don't know what an SMF file is. Is this something to do with Flash? I suspect timidity+freepats is the only option. > 2. user using Debian as MIDI GM instrument > > vkeybd + timidity? > > running > timidity -Oj -iA > vkeybd > > resulted in a very latent MIDI keyboard. I'm not quite sure if it's my > local setup or it's fundamentally busted Probably better results using: External MIDI keyboard + JACK + Qsynth/fluidsynth You need JACK otherwise you get latency problems. > 3. user using Debian as MIDI sequencer > > vkeybd/external MIDI device + sequencer + external MIDI device or > soft-synth software vkeybd/external MIDI device + JACK + [Rosegarden | MUsE | seq24] + [external MIDI device | Qsynth/fluidsynth | ZynAddSubFX | Hydrogen] Also Pd, Csound and SuperCollider probably represent complete solutions in themselves or in combination. Not for Newbies. > 4. user using Debian as DAW > > Handling audio at the same time as using MIDI, which probably means a > lot of jack connection. Add [Ardour | Audacity] + JAMin + LADSPA to the end of that list. If you want to do all this at the same time as the above, you're going to need a reasonably powerful machine stuffed with as much memory as you can get hold of! > The more interesting parts are 3 and 4, and I would like to know the > current package offerings, and what can be implemented for > interoperation of the packages. hope that was useful. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
