On 7/15/22 2:53 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 02:28:37PM +0200, Brian Durant wrote:
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...
To make fluidsynth work (applies to any real-time softsynth), first
lower sndio latency, example:
doas rcctl set sndiod flags "-z 128"
doas rcctl restart sndiod
Install fluidsynth and generaluser-gs-soundfont pacakges. In one
terminal start fluidsynth:
fluidsynth /usr/local/share/generaluser-gs/GeneralUser_GS.sf2
At this point, fluidsynth listens for incoming MIDI messages on the
default "midithru/0" port. To send MIDI messages from your keyboard
(probably "midi/0") to it, try:
midicat -d -q midi/0 -q midithru/0
Cooooool. My two problems had been that I could only figure out to use
Qsynth to get the path to the soundfont. The second was that I was
trying to use umidi/0 rather than midi/0, as I almost exclusively have
USB MIDI keyboards. Many thanks.
Anyone that uses a DAW with OpenBSD is welcome to jump in here as well.
As I mainly work with MIDI, I guess that the best I can hope for is
getting LMMS working, as Ardour doesn't handle MIDI very well, from my
limited experience...
