Hello all,
I have been doing the primary maintainer work on rosegarden, muse, and mscore for a while now. These are all very important packages and I believe that I am not giving them enough care that they deserve. I have a ton of other packages to work with, thus an extra pair of hands would help us a lot.
These packages, especially rosegarden, received a number of ABRT crash reports and we need someone to forward such report to upstream and to deal with the bugs. If you want comaintainership for any of these packages, please file your request at pkgdb:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/rosegarden4 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/muse https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mscore
Moreover I would like to have a MIDI oriented comaintainer for my MIDI oriented packages. While I have a decent knowledge about MIDI, the instruments I play (guitar, bass, percussions) are mostly analog thus it would make sense to have more experienced people helping with these packages. Below is the list of packages I (co)-maintain. If there is anything there that you would love to contribute to, feel free to ask for comaintainership:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/oget
Thanks, Orcan
On 15/08/10 05:30, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
Moreover I would like to have a MIDI oriented comaintainer for my MIDI oriented packages. While I have a decent knowledge about MIDI, the
I'm hoping to control/read a Yamaha student level keyboard that has a midi interface.
Does any one have particular model numbers of a hardware USBII to MIDI interface that either already works with Fedora or has workarounds to get it going ?
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On 15/08/10 10:25, David Timms wrote:
On 15/08/10 05:30, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
Moreover I would like to have a MIDI oriented comaintainer for my MIDI oriented packages. While I have a decent knowledge about MIDI, the
I'm hoping to control/read a Yamaha student level keyboard that has a midi interface.
Does any one have particular model numbers of a hardware USBII to MIDI interface that either already works with Fedora or has workarounds to get it going ?
I'm have a Yamaha Motif XS and that pops up as 4 individual MIDI interfaces (internal keyboard/tone generator, external MIDI ports on the XS, sequencer control and remote control feature) immediately when connecting via USB.
I've tried to connect a Yamaha PSR keyboard once with USB (just for fun) - - Don't recall exactly which model, could have beenm PSR-E413. Anyway, that *does not* work with MIDI, at least out of the box.
However, I'd expect most keyboards being more "high-end" will have the proper USB MIDI interface built in and it should be detected rather quickly. I'd expect all Motif's (even older ones), MO/MM's and S90's to have this support - but you'd have to try it to be sure. I can only confirm Motif XS works. If an alternative could be a pure MIDI controller (without built-in sounds), Yamaha KX might also be an alternative.
Unfortunately, the ALSA Yamaha page is not very updated:
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Yamaha
Of course, you got Roland, Alesis, Clavia/Nord, Akai and M-Audio as well, to mention a few. But my experience is that Yamaha do have its own edge on the sounds, which sounds a lot better in my ears.
If possible, I'd bring a Linux laptop to a music dealer and asked to try a few keyboards with your computer, to see if it works or not. You should be able to do 'cat /dev/midi??' and see some garbage popping out to your console when playing the keys. If that works, it should be pretty much supported.
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
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