about me...
grade school music - cornet (trumpet)
skipped junior high / middle school
high school - baritone/euphonium
college - I was a music major for a couple of years... before MIDI...
then MIDI, and the computer lover (not so much now) I was I had to have it
MIDI was hard enough in Windows
stuff either was too expensive
or not for the win version I had
last MIDI thing I tried in WinXP
needed online registration which was no longer possible
now after the death of WinXP & the demise of my laptop
here I am in Linux Land hunting for MIDI
I thought I had some old round MIDI cables...
I do have the old MIDI to USB for older stuff
and my new Casio Kayboard is all USB
I bet I will have issues with my Casio Keyboard
Casio worships MICRO$OFT like the rest of the wurld
I have already had issues with mint's audio...
If things keep going the way they are Linux will be just as bad as Windows.
terminal
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much MIDI in Linux is terminal... why the gui then?
it's like Linux Lovers hate gui's
I don't know... I do a lot more in a terminal than I did in windows
a linux terminal is way more powerful than a windows/dos command line
but for many things if there is a gui, I hit that first (doconf editor for one)
I have yet to investigate MIDI for the terminal environment
I like seeing my music!
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jack & pulseaudio (mint) do not work well together
ardour
sound & MIDI
looks promising
audacity
sound only, no MIDI
I have installed but have not used it yet
musescore
installed but have not done much
doesn't look very MIDI friendly
qtractor
similar to rosegarden
jack & issues with pulseaudio
rosegarden
repository version is old
new version has to be source downloaded & compiled
system configuration dependent