2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
8:41 a.m.
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:19 pm, Ken Restivo wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:42:00AM -0400, Dave
Phillips wrote:
On some of my boxes, I run this way:
modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe snd-virmidi
qjackctl
make sure Connect is selected
choose the midid tab
You should see the virmidi devices even before actuallt starting jack in
qjackctl. Do the ports from the Atari program show up there?
Ken Restivo wrote:
Wow. Just wow. It works! Along with the copy of EditTrack y'all pointed me
to here: http://tamw.atari-users.net/dwnloads.htm
Amazing. What a great sequencer that was! I haven't used it in 15 years,
but surprisingly I remembered how to get around in it.
Now one question. EditTrack refuses to save the file in MID format. Even if
I name the file EXPORT.MID, it saves it in its proprietary SNG format
instead.
It looks like steem will access /dev/midi or any OSS-style /dev/something
MIDI port, however. So I'm almost there. I just need to figure out how to
get a /dev/midi kind of device to show up in aconnect, then I can play the
song on EditTrack in the virtual Atari, and use aseqdump to capture it on
Linux.
I've messed around with virmidi, etc, but haven't figured out how to do
this though. Is there any way to create a bridge between a /dev/device that
will show up as an ALSA sequencer port in aconnect/QjackCtl? But I have some data in the proprietary format of
the old SMTPETrack
program for Atari ST, but I long ago sold the Atari and the SMPTETrack
software and its little game-port SMPTE dongle (which was the
copy-protection for the software too).
Just for curiosity's sake, I'd like to get a couple of those files
converted to standard MIDI format, and try to listen to 'em using PC51
soundfont in fluidsynth, for instance, and all the other wonderful
modern tools of linux goodness.
Any ideas how to do that? Short of buying an old Atari ST and the
SMPTETrack dongle on EBay? This is only a mild curiosity and probably
not worth spending money (or even much more time than an hour or so).
Maybe XSteem can help ?
http://steem.atari.st/
Might not be what you want if that dongle's an absolute necessity.
-ken
all the best,
drew