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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: Devil999 on August 17, 2020, 05:22:32 PM

Title: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Devil999 on August 17, 2020, 05:22:32 PM

It would be great to have a MIDI editor extension in TinyCore, either Qtractor or Seq24, or both :)
These are the most lightweight ones I can think of.

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Rich on August 17, 2020, 10:13:33 PM

Hi Devil999
You did not specify which architecture you were interested in (x86, x86_64, ARM, etc.).

Would timidity do what you want:
http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86/tcz/timidity.tcz.info
http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/timidity.tcz.info

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Devil999 on August 17, 2020, 10:28:31 PM

No, Timidity is not a MIDI sequencer, it's a software synthesizer for MIDI playback. TinyCore doesn't have any MIDI editors.

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You did not specify which architecture you were interested in

x86 and x86_64

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Juanito on August 23, 2020, 09:21:33 AM

sequencer64 posted to CorePure64 repo

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Devil999 on August 23, 2020, 11:09:02 PM

Good to hear! I almost forgot about sequencer64, which is a greatly improved version of seq24. Will you also add it to x86 repository?

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Juanito on August 24, 2020, 12:08:46 AM

Please test it first.

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Devil999 on August 25, 2020, 12:36:08 PM

This is what it gives me:

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Juanito on August 27, 2020, 09:51:21 AM

You probably need to manually modprobe one or more kernel sound drivers until you see something like this:

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$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd_seq_midi           12288  0
snd_seq_midi_event     12288  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                36864  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi            20480  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device         12288  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
You could start with:

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$ sudo modprobe snd_seq_device
This will create /dev/snd/seq

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Devil999 on September 25, 2020, 06:06:49 PM

Perhaps I'll try it, however I suspect that other users will not be ready to painstakingly tinker with kernel sound drivers only to make the single available midi sequencer work properly. Wouldn't it be easier to just add Qtractor to TinyCore instead, since it's a well-tested and reliable application?

Title: Re: Qtractor and Seq24 request
Post by: Devil999 on September 25, 2020, 06:22:50 PM

Also, take a look at this - https://github.com/ahlstromcj/sequencer64/blob/master/INSTALL - it says that there are different versions that can be built, including a RtMidi version. On TinyCore, RtMidi is what it complains about.