Hello,
Testing the 5.0 all-in-one from squeak.org in a Mint 17.2 running in VirtualBox (Windows 8.1 host), I see that
SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported
returns false with the linux VM, and true with the Windows VM (run though Wine).
So it seems to me that the linux MIDIPlugin is broken (or am I missing something ?)
Stef
MIDIPlugin doesn't seem to be included in 5.0 all-in-one.
Levente
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
Hello,
Testing the 5.0 all-in-one from squeak.org in a Mint 17.2 running in VirtualBox (Windows 8.1 host), I see that
SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported
returns false with the linux VM, and true with the Windows VM (run though Wine).
So it seems to me that the linux MIDIPlugin is broken (or am I missing something ?)
Stef
On 26.09.2015, at 18:36, Stéphane Rollandin lecteur@zogotounga.net wrote:
Hello,
Testing the 5.0 all-in-one from squeak.org in a Mint 17.2 running in VirtualBox (Windows 8.1 host), I see that
SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported
returns false with the linux VM, and true with the Windows VM (run though Wine).
So it seems to me that the linux MIDIPlugin is broken (or am I missing something ?)
This depends on which sound driver you’re running with. IIRC only Squeak’s ALSA module supports MIDI.
- Bert -
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 26.09.2015, at 18:36, Stéphane Rollandin lecteur@zogotounga.net wrote:
Hello,
Testing the 5.0 all-in-one from squeak.org in a Mint 17.2 running in VirtualBox (Windows 8.1 host), I see that
SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported
returns false with the linux VM, and true with the Windows VM (run though Wine).
So it seems to me that the linux MIDIPlugin is broken (or am I missing something ?)
This depends on which sound driver you’re running with. IIRC only Squeak’s ALSA module supports MIDI.
I guess Mint uses Pulseaudio over ALSA. And I know that programs, like Audacity, can grab ALSA for themselves when nothing is accessing Pulseaudio. So I guess that should work.
Levente
- Bert -
On 27-09-2015, at 7:34 AM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote: This depends on which sound driver you’re running with. IIRC only Squeak’s ALSA module supports MIDI.
And we need to remember that ALSA needs fixing to deal with interrupts correctly; on Pi it is a major nuisance and I hope we finally got the fixed version into the new Raspbian release coming out in the next few days. Eliot can tell about the ‘fun’ they had sorting it out at Qwaq.
We don’t seem to be able to get midi general instrument sounds either. The mess that *nix seems to have built around sound is amazing to me.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim The enema of my enemy is my friend
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