I need to send specific bytes over USB/MIDI. How can I accomplish this?
I want to program a midi controller with an Arduino. But first, I want to test how I have to send the messages.
I'm pretty new to ubuntu. I bought an acer aspire v5 laptop and installed Ubuntu. So far everything worked in the way I want it, except frescobaldi.
It's an editor for lilypond files. There's a midi-player included. I installed timidity and followed the instructions, however the midi player doesn't produce any sound. There's no error message or anything but it's pretty clear that it doesn't work. Every other sound application worked fine so far and I am able to use the timidity midi player to play my midi-files. Its just the built-in midi player in frescobaldi that doesnt work.
How to solve this?
I googled it for hours now and there doesn't seem to be anyone else with a similar problem.
Rhythmbox 2.96 doesn't run any midi file on Ubuntu 12.04, even after installing GStreamer and Ubuntu Restricted Extras.
Rhythmbox-Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|rhythmbox-metadata|audio/midi decoder|decoder-audio/midi
[0xb5504e40] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `MIDI'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
I would like to set up my keyboard via my midi-sport 2x2, I've plugged everything in and even installed the midisport-firmware package which was not automatically installed for some reason.
The goal is to have the computer produce a piano sound when keys of the keyboard are hit. If you can make this work without jack, that would be good too. Step by step instructions, the less complexity the better.
I'd like to do something like
$ play filename.mid
and hear the midi file played without opening up a graphical program. Is there a package for Ubuntu that can do this?