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Questions tagged [midi]

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timidity: No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, no idea which one is missing

I am trying to play this midi file downloaded from here, but I get: $ timidity --verbose marivonnig1\ \(1\).mid Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192 ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes Playing marivonnig1…
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Is it possible to convert audio to midi with the shell?

Some might say this doesn't work, but it does, this website does what I want. Can you do this with any common tool like ffmpeg? Or maybe there is a python script somewhere? I couldn't find anything on the net.
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Use MIDI signals for media control

I have a physical MIDI keyboard that also features some control keys, such as "play" and "stop". When pressed, they send the MIDI codes 115 and 116 respectively over the MIDI bus. Is it possible to hook up these commands to the usual media controls…
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Simple way to connect midi keyboard to pulseaudio without using Jack

I need a simple way to connect the midi keyboard to pulse audio and leave it active. ( i'm not worried about low latency.) So far, I've looked at Ted's Linux MIDI Guide and followed all of that, but I reverted to normal latency kernel, when the…
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Print and connect Jack Audio and MIDI ports from the command line

How do I print and connect jack-audio and midi ports from the command line, similar to aconnect -io or aconnect 20:0 132:1 for inputs and outputs of ALSA MIDI?
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Setting up Ardour/JACK on Mint/Ubuntu

Full context I would like to set up Ardour and mess around a bit on a keyboard-as-in-music which I got a while ago, turned out not to need, but couldn't return. When I try to start Ardour, with a new session testing, using JACK as the audio system,…
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How to play a MIDI file in Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon (using any audio player)?

I'm trying to play a MIDI file in my Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon. I just open the MIDI file with any music player and it says it requires a plugin named gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, so I click "Install" and then nothing happens, the player can't play the…
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Software for adjusting the velocity curve of a MIDI controller

I use my yamaha clp330 digital piano as a midi controller. The problem is that the volume of the sound is too low when I play on the piano. But using software controllers the sound is normal. So it seems that the velocity value on my digital piano…
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USB MIDI keyboard (Oxygen 61) now not appearing in QJackCtl

I've had a USB Oxygen61 MIDI keyboard for awhile now, and it has worked fine in the past (maybe a month ago, last I tried). But now when I plug it in, it no longer shows up in aconnect -l, and I can't see it as an ALSA MIDI device in Jack. It…
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See a serial port as a MIDI IN device

I have connected a MIDI device to my UART RX / serial port /dev/ttyAMA0 using some electronics as described here. I have properly configured the right baud setting (31250 baud, etc.). It works: I can open the serial port, read some data, and I see…
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Setting up digital piano and computer with MIDI interface

I have a MIDI cable that has IN and OUT interfaces. I want to connect my piano (Yamaha P95) with the laptop (running Ubuntu), so I can record midi songs. I connected the cable between piano and laptop like in the following scheme: Yamaha P95 …
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Alsa sequencer issue - no file /dev/snd/seq

I seem to be having issues with my Alsa sequencer. I am using Parabola (Arch variant) and I don't use Pulseaudio, I use Alsa directly. I am trying to play a game via Wine that has MIDI audio. I have fluidsynth installed and it works - I can play a…
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How to fire a udev rule after the kernel has registered a driver?

I have a MIDI keyboard "Impulse", and a raspi3. I want to connect the keyboard to the raspi, and having sounds without touching anything. So I use fluidsynth with jack as audio driver. Fluidsynth is launched by systemd service. There is no problem…
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How do I make MIDI files sound the same in Linux as in Windows?

I have created a MIDI file using Anvil Studio in Windows. When playing the file with the MIDI editor Rosegarden in Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed), the MIDI file sounds different. Now, I know that MIDI files don't contain any music themselves and that…
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How create a second midi device?

I need create two or more MIDI devices. Using the command "modprobe snd-virmidi", I create one midi device: "/dev/midi1". This device is connect in port 20. I can see in "aconnect -l" and put with another softs. However, I need create anothers as:…
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