2 Mar
2014
2 Mar
'14
7:51 a.m.
Aiyumi Moriya wrote:
Hi!
Hi Aiyumi,
A visually impaired Linux user here. I recently came
across this great
thread[1] and decided to write this message. My goal is a little
different from the original topic author (generating MIDI via code VS.
recording via a keyboard) so I decided to start a new discussion.
Here's my situation (warning: very long post!):
I'm trying to create some kind of audio setup for
quite some time
(since around 2010)... but:
* I never got JACK to really work.
JACK is pretty useful. You may be able to configure
/etc/asoundrc or $HOME/.asoundrc so that ALSA I/O is routed
to JACK[1].
While my dream DAW doesn't come true, does anyone
know a command line
way to record MIDI while simultaneously playing an audio file and
keeping both in sync (even if it involves JACK)?
Nama[2] is a command-line application that uses Ecasound for
recording and editing audio. Although it is currently
oriented toward audio, Nama can send commands to a midish
process, and has been used with midish and a2jmidi[3] for
combined audio/MIDI recording under JACK.
A simple hack for starting audio and MIDI in sync was to put
midish and ecasound commands in the same line:
nama> midish-command r; start # For midish, "r" means "record"
I expect we'll eventually add in a MidiTrack class that
would handle MIDI recording and playback. For now, you
would have to issue all the midish commands yourself.
Joel
Well, that's it. Sorry for the overly long post.
Thanks for your time!
1. http://jackaudio.org/routing_alsa
2. https://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html
http://github.com/bolangi/nama
3. http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/README
The need for this appears to be partially if not fully
obsoleted by the latest jack1: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.jackit/27914
--
Joel Roth