Midi and Music Composition on FreeBSD

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 10/02/16 16:02, blubee blubeeme wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I don't know if this has been beaten to death but I want to ask.
>
> I saw this thread on the forums: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/13998/
>
> and while I am not really willing to leave FreeBSD to go anywhere. I just
> got here; even though I am having apple specific hardware issues. I really
> like the simplicity of FreeBSD and plan to stick around.
>
> I am a meddling developer whose made some games, and apps as well as some
> other larger software projects. With all of that out of the way.
>
> I would like to make Midi and synths work on FreeBSD but it seems like they
> are pretty much all tied to Jack or ALSA which kinda sucks in FreeBSD land.
>
>
> I don't need complicated tools to make music and don't mind building more
> complicated tools as I go but to be honest I don't know where to start.
>
> I really liked seq24: http://www.filter24.org/seq24/
> but it has a license that, well....
>
> Anyways if I could start with something as simple as that, which would
> allow me to record midi data.
>
> I have an Akai mpk mini mp2 that I can use.
>
> This could touch on a lot of different aspects from writing device drivers
> up to writing programs and then actually composing music. Which I think
> would be really awesome.
>
> even with something as simple as something like seq24 up and running and
> zynaddsubfx up and running I could start making music but as it stands
> right now I cannot, why? Because they both rely on JACKD and even though
> I've installed jack and run it as root user and all applications as root
> user they just don't seem to see each other and are able to connect.
>
> I am willing to do the heavy lifting here, if I can get some guidance from
> this list from time to time.
>
> Is this list active, anyone here with experience who might see some flaws
> in what I've already written above and can point me in the right direction?
>
> I've already looked at the oss development guide v4 and while I am not a
> sound programmer, I can follow what's going on.
>
> So, any feedback to get started?

Hi,

Have a look at MIDIPP in /usr/ports/audio/midipp

Works great with zynaddsubfx, jackd and more.

--HPS