MIDI for Linux

MIDI for Linux

[Spectral Composer]

Second question today!  ;-)

My boss was talking to me about wanting to develop MIDI applications for
Linux.  My question is, what interface would you recommend popping into my
puter for use with Linux, what apps currently exist for linux (wave
editing, sequencing, etc) and most importantly, what needs exist for the
platform.  I COULD do extensive web research on this to answer these
questions, but I'm really excited to get started on this project.

The whole thing will be made available under copyleft, as this is
basically a selfish project of ours in that we just want to set up our
keyboards as cheaply as possible, and thus, profit is not our motivation
here.  I'll definitely keep the list apprised as we start to get things
up.

-Ron

"We've secretly replaced the Garcia-Vidal's cat with a crazed wolverine.
Let's see if they'll notice"

Re: MIDI for Linux

[Robert Jonsson]

Hi,

I'd definately look at http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ best site to
get up to par with what applications are available. As far as needs are
concerned this isn't an easy question to answer, I won't even try.... Lets just
say, there isn't as many apps as under Windows, more apps are always better.
Most of the apps available under linux still have some way to go before they can
be considered stable, this may be the biggest need. This isn't very surprising
since the whole Linux-audio scene is relatively new.

Linux ships with sounddrivers for most "normal" soundcards, developed by
www.opensound.com. For a bit more PRO oriented drivers have a look at
www.alsa-project.org. They have support for lots of pro hardware, though they
are currently a bit away from a 1.0 release, which means there are things still
changing in their api's.

As far as midi interfaces, I'm sorry to say I really don't have a good idea, I
use the soundcards built in, but since I'm not a professional that is good
enough for me...

Just my 2 cents

/Robert

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http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/lad.html



Spectral Composer wrote:

> Second question today!  ;-)
>
> My boss was talking to me about wanting to develop MIDI applications for
> Linux.  My question is, what interface would you recommend popping into my
> puter for use with Linux, what apps currently exist for linux (wave
> editing, sequencing, etc) and most importantly, what needs exist for the
> platform.  I COULD do extensive web research on this to answer these
> questions, but I'm really excited to get started on this project.
>
> The whole thing will be made available under copyleft, as this is
> basically a selfish project of ours in that we just want to set up our
> keyboards as cheaply as possible, and thus, profit is not our motivation
> here.  I'll definitely keep the list apprised as we start to get things
> up.
>
> -Ron
>
> "We've secretly replaced the Garcia-Vidal's cat with a crazed wolverine.
> Let's see if they'll notice"