Music Keyboard for TamTam?

[Gary C Martin]

On 17 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Gary C Martin wrote:

>> I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical
>> keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities?
>>
>> The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the
>> keyboard.  A small 37-key midi keyboard by M-Audio costs about $50.
>> <http://www.fullcompass.com/product/324805.html>.  It supposedly
>> works with any computer with a usb connection, but I suspect they
>> mean any Mac or Windows based machine.
>>
>> The programs in the TamTam suite are really powerful, and could
>> appeal to older children and adults if the keyboard input was more
>> suited to their larger hands.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Ooh I've been meaning to test this for a while – so I've just plugged
> my M-Audio 49-e into the XO (release 8.2-767), and tried each of the
> TamTam suite... Unfortunately it seems to have no effect :-(
>
> This was only a very quick attempt, I'll try a deeper look and see if
> anything obvious is borked, will likely poke about with csound in the
> raw and see what I can pick-up:
>
> 	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/CSound
>
> I'm guessing this may well work, or at least used to, as I found this
> flicker shot of Simon and Walter testing an early board prototype :-)
>
> 	http://flickr.com/photos/48600098314@N01/189728345/
>
> Anyone else tried, or can point me in the right direction (is there
> some /dev I should look for)?


OK, replying to my own email (well it is late here) – I can at least  
see the midi keyboard is being recognised using the terminal amidi  
command:

amidi -l
Dir   Device    Name
IO    hw:1,0,0   Ketstation 49e MIDI 1

On a more disappointing note I found this ticket "G1G1 tamtam suite  
should respond to MIDI keyboard input" from 10 months ago. Closed.  
Wont fix :-(

	https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031

--Gary