Re: Features for a new release. (was Re: [Denemo-devel] Midi output faulty for whole measure rests in 4/2 time)

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:37 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> Thanks for the information - I'll continue trying to pin down a
> particular midi-USB interface.

Why don't we just put up a contribution page on the website. If someone
wants faster midi note entry than they can ship you one. I think we
should have a contribution page anyway listing things like what jobs
need done and where the money would go if donated. I don't know how much
interest there is out there and how many users we have that would be
willing. Music software is a small portion of a market and denemo seems
to target ones that are tech savey so it is an even smaller market. 

Jeremiah



> Richard
> 
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:51 +0100, Benoit Rouits wrote:
> > There is a standard called usb-midi, and alsa support that standard.
> > However, several USB musical keyboards does not conform to this 
> > standard. IMHO, it's safer to buy a pure midi keyboard plus a midi to 
> > usb-midi interface. I have such an interface: a yamaha UX96 (it's an old 
> > model). Such interfaces are not raw cables, they must contain some (even 
> > small) electronic components. I think that "Vista" compatible products 
> > are true usb-midi (so, work with alsa) since Vista seems to use 
> > extensively the usb standards to get rid of buggy drivers.
> > hth,
> > - Ben
> > 
> > Richard Shann a écrit :
> > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:11 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > >>>> importmidi breaking voices into other staffs 
> > >>> (ok - I don't know what this is about, I guess because I have never
> > >> used
> > >>> importmidi in earnest)
> > >> Where you at one time trying to get a midi controller or usb midi
> > >> connector for your midi controller? Have you given up on that idea
> > >> since
> > >> you have the pitch detection working better for you? 
> > > It did slip down the priority list as a result of getting the pre-amp.
> > > Then it went up again as I discovered the hum was getting in before the
> > > pre-amp (it's rather erratic). Then it went down again as I found that
> > > if I powered the small Yamaha keyboard via batteries it solved the mains
> > > hum problem (naturally).
> > > However, I have been tempted by the local supermarket offering a 61-note
> > > Yamaha keyboard at a low price - I tend to run out of notes on the small
> > > keyboard I have been using. But it doesn't have a USB output, only midi
> > > connector, and so I started looking for those, only to find that they
> > > are much more expensive. Which I can't really understand, as I see midi
> > > to USB conversion cables sold for next to nothing - I don't know what
> > > these really do, let alone whether Alsa &c support them... As far as I
> > > can make out, there does seem to be some usb/midi standard that allows
> > > people to sell usb devices (such as midi controller keyboards) with no
> > > software drivers which Linux will support. But whether there is a a
> > > simple cable that would take the midi output of my small Yamaha keyboard
> > > and plug it into the USB port on the computer I can't figure out. The
> > > people selling the cables don't give any details about what they do.
> > > Richard
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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