MIDI for Linux

Second question today! ;-)

My boss was talking to me about wanting to develop MIDI applications for Linux. My question is, what interface would you recommend popping into my puter for use with Linux, what apps currently exist for linux (wave editing, sequencing, etc) and most importantly, what needs exist for the platform. I COULD do extensive web research on this to answer these questions, but I'm really excited to get started on this project.

The whole thing will be made available under copyleft, as this is basically a selfish project of ours in that we just want to set up our keyboards as cheaply as possible, and thus, profit is not our motivation here. I'll definitely keep the list apprised as we start to get things up.

-Ron

"We've secretly replaced the Garcia-Vidal's cat with a crazed wolverine. Let's see if they'll notice"

Hi,

I'd definately look at http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ best site to get up to par with what applications are available. As far as needs are concerned this isn't an easy question to answer, I won't even try.... Lets just say, there isn't as many apps as under Windows, more apps are always better. Most of the apps available under linux still have some way to go before they can be considered stable, this may be the biggest need. This isn't very surprising since the whole Linux-audio scene is relatively new.

Linux ships with sounddrivers for most "normal" soundcards, developed by www.opensound.com. For a bit more PRO oriented drivers have a look at www.alsa-project.org. They have support for lots of pro hardware, though they are currently a bit away from a 1.0 release, which means there are things still changing in their api's.

As far as midi interfaces, I'm sorry to say I really don't have a good idea, I use the soundcards built in, but since I'm not a professional that is good enough for me...

Just my 2 cents

/Robert

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