A GNU/Linux alternative for hairless-midiserial: ttymidi (patched by me) about mega-drive-midi-interface HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi Lucas,

Thanks for sharing your patched version of ttymidi! I'll give it go at some point. 😁

The MIDI instrument patches are based on Wohlstand's XG bank from libOPNMIDI. They are hardcoded in the build of the ROM. You can of course swap them out at compile-time. At some point I hope to support loading/saving of patches either to the SD card of a Mega Everdrive, or over the USB or serial port connection.

However, compile-time will do for now :)

You can compile in your own presets by using https://github.com/rhargreaves/deflemask-preset-viewer to generate the C code for a patch.

Hope that helps!

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You're quite welcome and I hope it is is of use for all other GNU/Linux Sega enthusiasts. I don't mind if you want to offer it as another choice in your wiki, assuming it passes your test. ;)

That's great to hear that the sounds are so customizable, although I am happy with your current XG default. I have mostly Roland (LA & GS) synths, but my one Yamaha XG synth is awesome too. XG (or Yamaha anyway) seems more related to the Genesis/Mega Drive, both of which have roots in FM synthesis. This is making me curious enough to try compiling a GS version, though.

Thanks for the detailed response!

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When you try ttymidi, don't forget that its ports are reversed from most ALSA MIDI programs: Its input port is 1, and its output is port 0, although you'll only need to connect its input to your hardware MIDI input (with aconnect or something compatible) or MIDI playing program (such as aplaymidi).

Here's an example for aplaymidi (just type what's within the quotes, but not the quotes themselves):
Having already connected a USB cable from your computer to the mega everdrive pro, you can run "ttymidi -m -s /dev/ttyACM0" in one terminal window/tab. Then from another terminal window/tab it can be simply tested by running "aplaymidi -p 128:1 /$PATH_TO/$FILENAME.mid" ("aconnect -l" will list your MIDI ports if ttymidi isn't running at 128 like mine).

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I gave it go and it seems to work pretty well. I've added it as a suggested tool to use in the wiki. Thanks for the suggestion and efforts at making ttymidi compatible with the Mega EverDrive PRO 😁

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Thanks! I really appreciate that! Others will be able to find it now too. Also, I applaud your hosting of the source in github too!

I couldn't be more pleased. :) (Well, maybe if Microsoft ends ownership of github someday.)

Lucas

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