Aug 21 2019, Kevin Cole has written:
Hi, I'm on an Arch Linux system, and now have an old Yamaha PSR-220 (TM) "portable keyboard" and an iConnectivity Mio (TM) MIDI to USB cable.
... Hi Kevin, your MIDI cable will also show up with: aconnect -li and aconnect -lo respectively. There are graphical tools to list and connect MIDI ports as well. No idea what the current favourites are. qjackctl might work, patchage, but I'm almost sure there are smaller/even simpler programs, if you want them. The aconnect tool (and others) shows the ALSA sequencer ports. This is a system/API to connect MIDI ports, both hardware, as your mio cable, and software. Arch linux offers many MIDI sequencers. ALSA coimes with the very simple arecordmidi and aplaymidi. A nicer commandline alternative is midish, which I use. There is more here. On the graphical side of things there are many. Rosegarden sounds powerful, as does qtractor. But I don't know much about the graphics. To get a general idea of MIDI tools on Arch you can try: pacman -Ss midi And the same with your favourite AUR manager/installer. e.g.: trizen -Ss midi I hope this gives you a good starting point. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c ... About some useless information, Supposed to fire my imagination <3 (Britney Spears) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
