On 7/15/22 12:54 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 10:05:43AM +0200, Brian Durant wrote:
On a possibly related issue to my browser access to file system problem, has
anyone been able to get Web MIDI working with Firefox on OpenBSD 7.1? Here I
am referring to bandcamp.com and flowkey.com in particular. Neither site
appears to be receiving any MIDI signal despite an Akai LPK25 (for testing)
being registered by the system at umidi0. Flowkey requires ffmpeg to be
installed, as well as prompting for the Jazz MIDI extension to be installed.
Flowkey tabs crash and never make a MIDI connection. This has never happened
to me with Win 11, Linux, of FreeBSD. The Bandcamp site simply doesn't
register a MIDI device connected to the system, but doesn't crash the tab.
Again, any constructive advice is welcomed.
OpenBSD ports has no MIDI support. A quick look at firefox sources
suggest it's using is library:
https://github.com/boddlnagg/midir
which doesn't have sndio backend.
Many thanks about the information regarding Web MIDI, Firefox and midir.
No wonder this has been driving me mad. I had yet to look systematically
at ports to see what programs using MIDI were available, as I have been
so busy with the browser issues, so it is interesting that you state
that MIDI programs are lacking in ports. What do other users do? To my
mind, OpenBSD has excellent support for recognizing MIDI devices, and
excellent audio support (sndio) as well, which would make it an
excellent OS for music production... At the very least, it should be
feasible to get a USB MIDI keyboard working with fluidsynth (Qsynth)
according to the OpenBSD FAQ (Multimedia), but I admittedly have yet to
be successful at getting that working either...
Brian
