Re: Fedora & MIDI - recommendations request

[Max Pyziur]

On Fri, 24 May 2019, Seth Kenlon wrote:
> Specific to Rosegarden, I wrote this article:
> https://opensource.com/article/18/3/make-sweet-music-digital-audio-workstati...
>
> For more general information about Linux and MIDI and Audio and
> ...stuff... I maintain a whole website on the topic. The catch is,
> it's not specific to Fedora (and in fact is specific to Slackware, the
> distro I use at home and, in the past, as a multimedia infrastructure
> consultant). That said, there's a lot of useful information that
> actually does apply equally to Fedora (and RHEL).
>
> Rosegarden (again): http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=rosegarden
>
> MIDI and Linux: http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=midi
>
> JACK: http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=jack
>
> I hope some of these are useful!

Much thanks for this; these are very helpful.

After reading some, I checked to see if I had the necessary software 
installed (I do).

I then began working through your Rosengarden item. I connected my USB 
MIDI controller ((Akai LPK25).

Started jackd, then qjacktl, and then Rosengarden.

I loaded a MIDI file, pushed "play," and I get no sound. That's where I 
get stuck.

As I mentioned, I can work w MuseScore, Transcribe!, Audacity, strip audio 
from videos using ffmpeg, etc.

So, it seems that there are some services that need to be enabled/started 
or disabled/stopped to move further here.

Thank you again,

M
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:02 PM Max Pyziur  wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 May 2019, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > On 5/22/19 8:20 AM, Max Pyziur wrote:
> > > > Are there any recommendations for canonical/authoritative guides for using
> > > > MIDI on Fedora?
> > >
> > > That's a wide topic.  Could you explain more specifically what you want to
> > > do?
> >
> > I'm fluent in things like working with Musecore; by default using some
> > sort of MIDI process it plays back whatever I annote. Transcribe! is a
> > great resource for me.
> >
> > However, My first few tries at MIDI setup (trying to get Rosengarden
> > working) on my Fedora machines didn't work.
> >
> > I've googled for links that offer step-by-step instructions. I've tried to
> > follow them. Other projects and distractions have gotten in the way.
> >
> > So my request is to this Fedora Community, that knowledgebase, not
> > Google's, for some sort of authoritative guidance on implementing MIDI on
> > a Fedora based system.
> >
> > My laptop is a Dell XPS 13 L322X w an i7 processor; my desktop is a
> > homespun Shuttle PC box.
> >
> > As some first projects, I'd like to create some backing tracks for
> > practicing my keyboard (some walking bass lines and drums). Stuff like
> > that.
> >
> > Much thanks,
> >
> > Max
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