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On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:22:38PM +0100, St?phane Rollandin wrote:

still, my question remains: can we at the moment have a MIDI support in linux ? like, just be able to use SimpleMIDIPort ?

AFAIK this has been missing for years.

Stef,

I don't know the status of MIDIPlugin support on Linux but I can tell you that the plugin does compile, and I think that it is distributed as a builtin plugin in Ian's latest VM at http://squeakvm.org/unix/.

I'm afraid that I know very little about MIDI, and I don't have any actual MIDI devices to test on (*), but if you (or someone else) are in a position to do the testing, perhaps we can collaborate to get it working. I think that this plugin was done originally for Windows, so it might be necessary to do some work mapping it properly to device names on Linux. We did something like this recently for the SerialPlugin to make it work with USB serial devices, and I'm sure it would be possible to do something similar for MIDI if that is the issue.

Dave

(*) Actually maybe I do have such a device, I'll have to go read the manual and see if I can figure out what it does.