21 Aug
2019
21 Aug
'19
3:25 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 1:39 AM Jeanette C. <julien(a)mail.upb.de> wrote:
Aug 21 2019, Kevin Cole has written:
Thanks. This info looks quite helpful.
Unfortunately, I don't have the space at the moment to keep the Yamaha
plugged in all the time. So, I'll need to carve out some time to set
it up in the way of everything again before I follow-up on your
advice.
I'm reasonably comfy with Bash and Python (among other things), and,
at some point I think I installed everything in the ArchLinux ProAudio
group (https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/pro-audio/) even though
I don't know what to do with most of it.
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.
...
Hi Kevin,
your MIDI cable will also show up with:
aconnect -li
and
aconnect -lo
respectively. There are graphical tools to list and connect MIDI ports
as well. No idea what the current favourites are. qjackctl might work,
patchage, but I'm almost sure there are smaller/even simpler programs,
if you want them.
The aconnect tool (and others) shows the ALSA sequencer ports. This is a system/API to
connect MIDI ports,
both hardware, as your mio cable, and software.
Arch linux offers many MIDI sequencers. ALSA coimes with the very simple
arecordmidi and aplaymidi. A nicer commandline alternative is midish,
which I use. There is more here.
On the graphical side of things there are many. Rosegarden sounds
powerful, as does qtractor. But I don't know much about the graphics.
To get a general idea of MIDI tools on Arch you can try:
pacman -Ss midi
And the same with your favourite AUR manager/installer. e.g.:
trizen -Ss midi
I hope this gives you a good starting point.
Best wishes,
Jeanette