Hello. I have a midi keyboard, once connected to my PC, cat /dev/midi would produce junk text when I press the keys, thus I consider it properly installed.
And the PC runs Debian Lenny, timidity runs by /etc/init.d/timidity, and pmidi -p128:0 plays midi files just fine, so I think midi output is working. Now I am trying to connect the two, with the intention to use midi keyboard + PC as an electronic piano. I hope I can start to play without any feature like recording, mixing, composing, showing musical notes etc and get to know other features slowly (really slow, I hope I can manage other technical in one year or so) so i want to avoid diving into complicated software like RoseGarden (it require jackd which is damn difficult to get working right and stable on my PC, tired 2 days! consider I am 4-year experienced Linux sysadmin this is really difficult). is there a way to simply "connect" midi keyboard with a minimal software that can play it? A traditional Linux user would imagine: $ something < /dev/midi > timidity would work, after googling it seems obvious musician/geek think differently. Thanks in advance for hints! P.S. I tried several days to run MusE/RoseGarden/seq24 while could not making them work, and frustrated knowing what I need is only a fraction of what these software I am working on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Timidity-talk mailing list Timidity-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/timidity-talk
