Hello, all. Recently there's been some observations by others that
there's not enough activity on this ng. So, at the risk of some
re-posting, I'd like to enquire as to whether anyone has designed
and/or built a stand alone MIDI recorder/player using an inexpensive processor (e.g. Raspberry PI).
A UK company, http://www.sdmidicontroller.com also offers exactly what
I'm after but I think one could be constructed much less expensively.
On 2016-07-12, J.B. Wood <arl_123234@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello, all. Recently there's been some observations by others that
there's not enough activity on this ng. So, at the risk of some
re-posting, I'd like to enquire as to whether anyone has designed
and/or built a stand alone MIDI recorder/player using an inexpensive
processor (e.g. Raspberry PI).
It's something that does need to be done ! Have you asked on
comp.sys.raspberry-pi , which is a good and active ng ?
There is ALSA, and on the fluid-dev@nongnu.org mailing list
there's a number of folk running fluidsynth on the pi.
I asked comp.sys.raspberry-pi on 10 Jan 2014 :
On 07/12/2016 07:48 PM, Peter Billam wrote:
On 2016-07-12, J.B. Wood <arl_123234@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello, all. Recently there's been some observations by others that
there's not enough activity on this ng. So, at the risk of some
re-posting, I'd like to enquire as to whether anyone has designed
and/or built a stand alone MIDI recorder/player using an inexpensive
processor (e.g. Raspberry PI).
It's something that does need to be done ! Have you asked on
comp.sys.raspberry-pi , which is a good and active ng ?
There is ALSA, and on the fluid-dev@nongnu.org mailing list
there's a number of folk running fluidsynth on the pi.
I asked comp.sys.raspberry-pi on 10 Jan 2014 :
Hello, and no I haven't checked on that ng yet. For playing solo piano
MIDI files, even on a sound-constrained laptop, the FluidR3_GM.sf2
soundfont using the Yamaha Grand instrument is pretty realistic IMO.
You can use it with Timidity or for something more visual use VMPK. If
you want the same functionality on a Win PC my recommendation would be
the freeware "MidiPiano" (the default soundfont is the Microsoft GS
wavetable which I don't think is very good but the software can load
other soundfonts). Both the Linux and Windows software can output the
MIDI stream to USB-to-MIDI interfaces such as the MIDISPORT from
M-Audio.
Hello, all. Recently there's been some observations by others that
there's not enough activity on this ng. So, at the risk of some
re-posting, I'd like to enquire as to whether anyone has designed and/or built a stand alone MIDI recorder/player using an inexpensive processor
(e.g. Raspberry PI). These boxes were available in the `80's from
Brother, Yamaha and Roland but were ostensibly supplanted by software
running on PCs (with a MIDI interface) and later I-Pads and Smart
phones. You can still find the old boxes on flea bay but the storage
medium is floppy disk rather then flash drive and/or SD card.
I've got an old Technics digital piano (model SX-PX6) with MIDI ports
but no built-in capability to record, store, and play. I don't need a full-blown DAW package, just something to record and play, IOW live MIDI without subsequent editing. Organ manufacturers like Allen make exactly
the kind of box I have in mind but at a price. A UK company, http://www.sdmidicontroller.com also offers exactly what I'm after but I think one could be constructed much less expensively. The advantage of
such a box is in its size and minimal or no boot-up time. Your comment
is most certainly appreciated. Sincerely,
J.B. Wood wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
Hello, all. Recently there's been some observations by others that
there's not enough activity on this ng. So, at the risk of some
re-posting, I'd like to enquire as to whether anyone has designed and/or
built a stand alone MIDI recorder/player using an inexpensive processor
(e.g. Raspberry PI). These boxes were available in the `80's from
Brother, Yamaha and Roland but were ostensibly supplanted by software
running on PCs (with a MIDI interface) and later I-Pads and Smart
phones. You can still find the old boxes on flea bay but the storage
medium is floppy disk rather then flash drive and/or SD card.
I've got an old Technics digital piano (model SX-PX6) with MIDI ports
but no built-in capability to record, store, and play. I don't need a
full-blown DAW package, just something to record and play, IOW live MIDI
without subsequent editing. Organ manufacturers like Allen make exactly
the kind of box I have in mind but at a price. A UK company,
http://www.sdmidicontroller.com also offers exactly what I'm after but I
think one could be constructed much less expensively. The advantage of
such a box is in its size and minimal or no boot-up time. Your comment
is most certainly appreciated. Sincerely,
http://hackaday.com/2016/03/13/a-pi-powered-recording-studio/
Hello, and I'm sure that's a nice device but what I'm after is a small-footprint MIDI sequencer with little or no editing capabilities that can record a MIDI stream. play it back. and store it in standard MIDI formats on flash media. Sincerely,
--
J. B. Wood e-mail: arl_123234@hotmail.com
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~eberdahl/Satellite/Looks like it's actually debian based. But there are raspberry pi/planet
Looks like it's pidora 18 based. Repositories at
Just plugging a usb ``midi'' keyboard into a planet CCRMA based non-pi system I was able to control softsynths in an obvious manner.Made a simple test. With satellite CCRMA and a maudio o2 connected by usb
It /should/ work the same for pi.
arecordmidi --port 20:0 test.mid
recorded a short midi sequence.
and with pd with simple patch at 128:0
aplaymidi --port 128:0
played it back so, a dedicated midi pi recorder shouldn't be too hard, depending, of course, on the desired feature list.
Ron
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