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MIDI support

Stan Shepherd
(cross posted to beginners and audio)

Hello everybody. I'm developing a project for which I need a MIDI music keyboard as input. I started out on a Windows box, and all the components seemed to be there. I've since swapped to Ubuntu, and it seems that the MIDI support is a problem.

From here: http://www.nabble.com/Midi-Input-with-Squeak-tf3749891.html#a10596965 I see that Eric asked the same question in May, without resolution.

It appears that what I need to do is to build a vm with the MIDI plug-in - http://www.nabble.com/modules,-plugins,-primitives,-and-MIDIPlugin-t3728328.html 

However, from here: http://www.nabble.com/modules%2C-plugins%2C-primitives%2C-and-MIDIPlugin-tf3728328.html#a10453224    it looks like even with a vm build I may not get MIDI in.

As a newbie, I'm not too keen to get into vm building just yet.

So my question is/are, is there any image available with MIDI support? If not, is the build thing a big undertaking? Are there any other creative approaches (e.g. use an old version of Siren, wait for Siren port proposed at http://www.nabble.com/Siren-on-Squeak-tf3802040.html)? Is my analysis of the state of play correct?

Thanks for any help- I really don't want to have to go back to Windows, or worse to Java.

Stan


PS I tried the Etoys/OLPC image, SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported  returns false there too. On Windows image it returns true.
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Re: MIDI support

Stan Shepherd
I notice that the latest E-Toys OLPC distn 3.9-11 on http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/ includes the MIDI plugin, but it apears not to be live- SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported  returns false.

Stan
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Re: MIDI support

Brad Fuller-2
stan414 wrote:
> I notice that the latest E-Toys OLPC distn 3.9-11 on
> http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/ includes the MIDI plugin, but it apears not to be
> live- SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported  returns false.
>
> Stan
>  
Did you check the unix VM svn tree?
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Re: MIDI support

Stan Shepherd
As Craig is in the process of the PortMidi port, I'll hang on for that:
http://www.nabble.com/MIDI-support-tf4714473.html