On August 22, 2019 8:49:04 AM HST, Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:25 AM Lorenzo Sutton
<lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 21/08/19 03:07, Kevin Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on an Arch Linux system, and now have an old Yamaha PSR-220
(TM)
> "portable keyboard" and an
iConnectivity Mio (TM) MIDI to USB
cable.
> My MIDI-fu is extremely limited.
>
> When I plug in the cable, it shows up (sans name) in lsusb as "Bus
001
> Device 005: ID 2321:000a"
>
> What is a good way to save keyboard stuff as .mid files and
vice-versa
(play
MIDI files out to the keyboard)?
The most common way is to use a midi sequencer. There are many and of
many flavours on Linux. See here for a list:
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/sequencers
Then, to 'play' with the midi keyboard (i.e. you play notes on the
keyboard and the computer generates sound), you need to use some sort
of
software synthesizer. These also come in many,
many flavours on
Linux.
See these links for a good start:
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/softsynths_and_samplers
http://linuxsynths.com/
Fluidsynth (and Qsynth as its GUI frontend) ar a good start for
'general
midi' style - using an appropriate General
Midi SoundFont (many free
ones available).
Of course, the above assume your midi to usb device (and therefore
keyboard) is correctly working and 'communicating' with the software.
The two main ways are either Alsa midi or Jack midi.
Software accepting midi in and/or midi out will have to be connected
to/from the device. QjackCtl is a nice tool for managing both Jack
Audio
and MIDI (both jack and alsa) connections.
Opening QjackCtl's
'Connction' window or its 'Graph' window should be quite intuitive
about
how this is done.
This is a short tutorial as a good starting point:
http://www.tgbates.com/linux/2016/01/11/midi-keyboard.html
And this is a much more detailed article by Ted Felix with lots of
useful information:
http://tedfelix.com/linux/linux-midi.html
Hope this helps.
Lorenzo.
I feel the OPs pain. I'm on Ubuntu 19.04. And, in the last few years
have
never gotten Jack to work. Period. I think that I did it once my doing
something convoluted ... but I guess I'm just too damned stupid for all
this. I think the biggest problem is that Ubuntu runs Plus Audio and
...
well, you know.
BTW, just making sure that jack is on the computer and then running
qjackctl doesn't work.
I've never been able to get things pro audio working when Pulsa Audio is present
except using Cadence. It made sorting out the relations between JACK and Pulse a lot
easier.
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