[linux-audio-user] MIDI recording, frustrated, set me straight

G'day from outback Australia, I'd like to record my Roland RD-150 piano at the MIDI protocol level, adjust the tempo, maybe fix a few mistakes, and then play it back and capture to audio to CD-R ... all to save having to take my piano with me on gigs. It doesn't like the dirt roads. I've spent about sixteen hours so far on the project, with some good progress, but I'm missing a workable means to capture the MIDI data and play it back at tempo. I see from the mailing list archives (Frustrated, small review on sequencers) that Rosegarden 4 might be an active project to try. Does this match what I need? I've not used these sort of tools before, so I lack the right terminology. I'm not convinced I know what people mean when they say "sequencer" or "tracker". Here is what I have cobbled together so far ... separate to my other systems ... - hardware: Pentium II 266MHz, 64Mb, 1.6Gb IDE, CD-R IDE, SB Live PCI, - software: Debian testing/unstable, ALSA 0.9.3 on Linux 2.4.20, - packages: brec, sweep, cdrecord (record sound, edit it to remove the silence, then record to CD-R) I had hoped it might be as simple as reading and writing to a device node, e.g. "cat /dev/sequencer > file", but all notes fire at once, when the data is written back to the node, so I guess additional timing ioctl() logic is required. I reviewed some 15 MIDI programs, one by one, but I was unable to record and play back, due to one reason or another. Programs tried include JAZZ++, Anthem, BINARS (marked obsolete by author), Brahms, Melys (sourceforge downloads down), MidiMountain, Shake Tracker, TekTracker, pystepseq (page missing), Rosegarden 2.1, seq24 (build failure on libgtkmm.so), ASeqView (didn't view a thing), MusE (no detection of MIDI interface), Sted2 (no data), libtse3 (no recording example program). -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/