New kernel necessary for MIDI support?

Hi all,

just an easy question, because I used Mandrake / Mandriva during the past
years exclusively, ans so I'm new to debian:

I have several MIDI devices, formerly used with windows, and I'd like to
keep them and access them by one of my linux boxes.

Unfortunately Mandriva seems to have no MIDI support available and it
seems to be very hard to get all libraries to build a customized kernel
supporting MIDI, I consider to switch to a different distibution.

I heard from some kollegues that there was a "Multimedia kernel" out
there, which already provides support for "musical instruments' digital
interface" from scratch.

To be more precise: I do not mean those lame "sound font techiques" which
just "map" MIDI events to audio samples. By that I mean real access to
the MIDI hardware device, to be able to control external synthesiers etc.

Does such thing exist in the debian distribution?

Thanks,
best regards,

Markus

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Markus R. Keßler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> just an easy question, because I used Mandrake / Mandriva during the past
> years exclusively, ans so I'm new to debian:
>
> I have several MIDI devices, formerly used with windows, and I'd like to
> keep them and access them by one of my linux boxes.
>
> Unfortunately Mandriva seems to have no MIDI support available and it
> seems to be very hard to get all libraries to build a customized kernel
> supporting MIDI, I consider to switch to a different distibution.
>
> I heard from some kollegues that there was a "Multimedia kernel" out
> there, which already provides support for "musical instruments' digital
> interface" from scratch.
>
> To be more precise: I do not mean those lame "sound font techiques" which
> just "map" MIDI events to audio samples. By that I mean real access to
> the MIDI hardware device, to be able to control external synthesiers etc.
>
> Does such thing exist in the debian distribution?
>
> Thanks,
> best regards,
>
> Markus
>


Use the Synaptic Package Manager and search on "midi" (no quotes) or in
a terminal enter:

apt-cache search midi


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John