current state of MIDI in Debian

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi

I'd like to do some research into current state of Debian MIDI
support. The following is the different usage scenarios I have in
mind.


1. casual user playing back SMF file

A web browser invoking some player. Handled via MIME.  Currently it
probably invokes timidity, since timidty+freepats is probably the only
thing in Debian supporting GM.


2. user using Debian as MIDI GM instrument

vkeybd + timidity?

running 
	timidity -Oj -iA 
	vkeybd

resulted in a very latent MIDI keyboard. I'm not quite sure if it's my
local setup or it's fundamentally busted

3. user using Debian as MIDI sequencer

vkeybd/external MIDI device + sequencer + external MIDI device or 
soft-synth software

4. user using Debian as DAW

Handling audio at the same time as using MIDI, which probably means a
lot of jack connection.


The more interesting parts are 3 and 4, and I would like to know the
current package offerings, and what can be implemented for
interoperation of the packages.


regards,
	junichi
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