MIDI Keyboard doesn't work on Linux

• Feb 1, 2011 - 23:12
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

Hello there,

it seems that in 0.9.6 (revision 2613) shipping with Ubuntu 10.04, the MIDI keyboard function is broken. I tried with a Korg Nano Key USB-MIDI toy as well as with my Kawai stage piano via a M-Audio USB Uno, both of which feel happy with controlling other software such as ZynAddSubFX.

When I enter notes via MIDI, the asterisk on the document's tab flashes up to mark that a change has been made, but nothing happens to the score. Then, when I type a note on the keyboard, e.g. "c" or space bar for pause, all of a sudden a couple of the previously entered MIDI notes will appear.

I don't exactly know what's going on. This looks like a bug. Let me know what kind of other info I could provide to help you.

Best

DrNI

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• Feb 2, 2011 - 16:28

It looks like you are using an early beta version of MuseScore 0.9.6. I recommend upgrading to the latest stable version (see the download page of this website for instructions on obtaining the "Ubuntu Stable Backports". Come back if you still have trouble.

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• Feb 14, 2011 - 07:42
Status (old) needs info ⇒ closed

Thank you very much. Problem solved.

To summarize: The MuseScore version that currently comes with Ubuntu 10.04 has a bug in the MIDI support. Notes cannot be entered properly using a MIDI keyboard. Using the Backports version from Launchpad solves the problem and gives you a more recent version of MuseScore even.

https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable

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