Re: midi software
David Stern wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I would like to know how do I go about install the driver. Thanks! First you need to get sound working, then you can see about midi progs. Indeed. To get sound working,.. If you have the non-Plug-n-Play, you should be able to just compile sound into your kernel. (might need the awedrv kernel patch, below) Do get the AWE patch. Be advised that the debian installation scripts do not actually apply the patch (from deselect, e.g.)-- you will have to run the script in /usr/src/awedrv manually before recompiling your kernel. If you have the Plug n Play version of the awe32, you can either.. get the commercial OSS Commercial driver for $20 (a five day free They price is actually $30 if you include the $10 (50% !) markup for AWE suport. trial) at some web address I forget, something like www.4front-tech.com, (and then you're all done, no patches) or.. [ ...recompile kernel ] I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. My current favorite source of sound software links is: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html The page, like Linux, is more for the technician than the musician, so don't expect to find a lot of instructional software. Some bad news: 1) Only a tiny fraction of the available sound software has been packaged for Debian, partially because: 2) Sound applications for Linux have much lower ratio of free software to commercial or restricted software than you might be used to. Many are ports from other unices, especially Irix and NextStep. The licences tend to be of the academic and/or free until you need it for a commercial purpose, whereupon it will cost you plenty type. A lot of this software is also really neat. 3) The AWE driver written by Takashi Iwai does not, as far as I can tell, support the OSS API (e.g.: playmidi and jazz do not work when configured to use external midi and OSS/Free, respectively). I haven't been able to figure out whether or not OSS/Free will fully suport the AWE driver in future stable releases. I have heard that support is included in version of OSS/Free distributed in the current development kernels, but I was under the impression that this support amounted only to the inclusion of Takashi's driver. I don't have the latest word on any of this, though. Does anyone else have rumors to share? Has anyone used the AWE drivers newer than 0.3.3c? Do the OSS people have an NDA with Creative Labs? Programs that use the OSS midi API will all have to be altered to use your card. There are fixes available for some software (plymidi, timidity), but no debian packages of the patched programs are available. No offense to Takashi Iwai is meant here-- quite the contrary. That he managed to write a driver based on what little information was available is pretty amazing. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. Well, the rosegarden sequencer/music notation package is pretty nifty, but it not a piano tutorial; it's geared more for writing/sequenceing music. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I would like to know how do I go about install the driver. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig then select the SOUND options and follow the directions. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. Well, the rosegarden sequencer/music notation package is pretty nifty, but it not a piano tutorial; it's geared more for writing/sequenceing music. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I would like to know how do I go about install the driver. cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig then select the SOUND options and follow the directions. In addition to this, you will probably want to get the awe driver. The non-commercial version is beta at this point, but it at least compiled for me. Trouble is, most (all?) awe cards are PnP, and you can't compile this driver in as a module yet, so you have to use initrd. I havn't figured out how to do this yet, but it looks like it should work. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea:Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
What is the relation between 'octave' and MIDI? Es geht auch anders, doch es geht auch so. (Berthold Brecht Dreigroschenoper) Egon Schmid, Grueninger Str. 6, 70599 Stuttgart Voice +49 711 453721 Data +49 711 453721 Fax +49 711 453721 On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: What is the relation between 'octave' and MIDI? There isn't one: octave is a math package, and MIDI is a music instrument/computer interface standard. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: What is the relation between 'octave' and MIDI? I think nil. octave is a very nice matrix math programming language (ala MATLAB, infact m file compatible with MATLAB for the most part). It was named for the proffessor of it's author, and has no relation to midi sound. Es geht auch anders, doch es geht auch so. (Berthold Brecht Dreigroschenoper) Egon Schmid, Grueninger Str. 6, 70599 Stuttgart Voice +49 711 453721 Data +49 711 453721 Fax +49 711 453721 On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: What is the relation between 'octave' and MIDI? Apparently none, I'm afraid. There were two midi programs in my mind. One had rose in it, which we now know is rosegarden. There was another, which I thought had a music term, and octave was what popped into my mind, but somebody said that was a math package, so I guess I was mistaken about that. I don't know what the other package is. I apologize for the misdirection. David Stern On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
midi software
Hi,
I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to
know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me.
I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I
need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and
I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I
would like to know how do I go about install the driver.
Thanks!
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Re: midi software
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I would like to know how do I go about install the driver. Thanks! First you need to get sound working, then you can see about midi progs. To get sound working,.. If you have the non-Plug-n-Play, you should be able to just compile sound into your kernel. (might need the awedrv kernel patch, below) If you have the Plug n Play version of the awe32, you can either.. get the commercial OSS Commercial driver for $20 (a five day free trial) at some web address I forget, something like www.4front-tech.com, (and then you're all done, no patches) or.. configure your Plug n Play devices by either.. switching to loadlin bootloader (if your bios does Plun n Play initialization), or.. get a plug n play initializer like isapnptools (should be in dselect), configure it (time-consuming), then.. recompile your kernel after adding the awedrv patch (also in dselect, you need to run an install script in /usr/src/awedrv to apply the patch). I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: midi software
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I would like to know how do I go about install the driver. Thanks! First you need to get sound working, then you can see about midi progs. To get sound working,.. If you have the non-Plug-n-Play, you should be able to just compile sound into your kernel. (might need the awedrv kernel patch, below) If you have the Plug n Play version of the awe32, you can either.. get the commercial OSS Commercial driver for $20 (a five day free trial) at some web address I forget, something like www.4front-tech.com, (and then you're all done, no patches) or.. configure your Plug n Play devices by either.. switching to loadlin bootloader (if your bios does Plun n Play initialization), or.. get a plug n play initializer like isapnptools (should be in dselect), configure it (time-consuming), then.. recompile your kernel after adding the awedrv patch (also in dselect, you need to run an install script in /usr/src/awedrv to apply the patch). I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in dselect, though. octave is probably not what you want, cool and froody though it is. octave is a MATLAB clone. A good one too. David Stern -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
