Using a midi keyboard with FreeBSD (jack update, ardour3 alpha...)

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Fri Sep 2 19:40:51 UTC 2011


I did another update:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/ardour-3.0alpha10-preliminary3.patch

(mostly Makefiles cleanups, I also added a DEBUG knob that can be
turned off if e.g. you are low on diskspace, and I removed the
SoundTouch dependency since I was told it is no longer used.)

 Enjoy, :)
	Juergen

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 08:00:43PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Small update:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:01:31AM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> >  So I was looking for midi software that could work with a midi
> > keyboard on an usb midi interface (snd_uaudio, /dev/umidi0.0), and
> > found that at least both rosegarden and musescore only know alsa seq
> > interfaces (which we don't have nor emulate on FreeBSD), not raw
> > midi (I'm not sure there's a difference between alsa raw midi and
> > oss raw midi)  I then found audio/lmms which appears to support
> > oss midi, but couldn't get it to work with my interface (and also
> > found it cannot export midi, only save in its own private fileformat.)
> > I even tried to update lmms to the latest release (I'd need to clean
> > that up before it would be ready for public consumption), but then...
> > 
> >  I found that the 3.0 alpha versions of Ardour...
> > 
> > 	http://ardour.org/node/4532
> > 	http://ardour.org/a3_features
> > 	http://ardour.org/a3_features_midi
> > 	http://ardour.org/a3_features_midi_editing
> > 	http://www.archive.org/details/Introduction_to_Ardour_3.0_MIDI
> > 
> > ...have grown midi support, _and_ ardour uses jack for both midi
> > output and input so I could use my keyboard with audio/jack_umidi.
> > Well, so now I have a first preliminary port of 3.0alpha10 svn
> > r10000:  (same revision as the Linux binaries on their site)
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/ardour-3.0alpha10-preliminary.patch
> > 
> > (apply on top of the current audio/ardour in the portstree)
> > 
> >  This needs a newer version of audio/jack so I updated that too:
> > (please test this update even if you don't use ardour or midi)
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/jack-0.120.1.patch
> > 
> >  TODO:
> > 
> > - Test (and possibly fix) the VST stuff (it uses wine and thus probably
> >   only works on i386 and I'm on amd64 so I didn't attempt to build it.)
> > - Fix the port so it respects C{,XX}FLAGS?  (it now uses waf which
> >   seems to ignore them.)
> > - Add slv2 support and test it (would at least need updating audio/slv2
> >   because ardour3 needs slv2 >= 0.6.4 .)
> 
> audio/slv2 was updated yesterday so I added the dependencies and
> verified the port still passes tb:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/ardour-3.0alpha10-preliminary2.patch
> 
> I don't have any lv2 plugins tho so I can't test this...
> 
> > - More missing features?
> > - Add knob to build release version and/or strip the installed
> >   objects? (/usr/local/lib/ardour3 is currently 1.6G, the build
> >   dir work/ is 3.7G.  It appears tho you can run the build from
> >   below the work/ dir without installing it by invoking:
> > 
> > 	work/ardour-3.0alpha10_10000/gtk2_ardour/ardev
> > 
> >   )
> > - Test!  (are the Ardour devs interested in FreeBSD bugreports?
> >   I don't know. :)  What I do know is they don't want the alphas
> >   discussed in their webforums, qoute:
> > 
> > -------snip-----------
> > This is an alpha version of Ardour 3.0.
> > 
> > You are respectfully requested NOT to ask for assistance with build issues
> > and not to report issues with Ardour 3.0 on the forums at ardour.org.
> > 
> > Please use IRC, the bug tracker and/or the ardour mailing lists (-dev or -user)
> > 
> > Thanks for your co-operation with our development process.
> > -------snip-----------
> > 
> >  Enjoy, :)
> > 	Juergen
> > 
> > PS:  The export function in the gui doesn't work for midi tracks, but
> > you can fork a track and after that grab a midi file out of:
> > 
> > 	<session dir>/interchange/<name>/midifiles


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