Basic MIDI related apps unavailable?

20 May 2023, 16:26:18

Hi. I am completely new to Artix and loving it, despite never having used an Arch based distro before. I successfully set up Pipewire on my new Artix XFCE runit install, mainly to avoid having to deal with JACK or JACK2, however I am experiencing difficulty finding some of the basic MIDI related programs that I usually use. As I understand that AUR programs are ill-advised, I am looking for a solution that will hopefully not force me to use Flatpak programs, which aren't exactly KISS. The current programs that I am looking for are VMPK and Google Chrome. Chromium could potentially also be used, but the version would need to support Web MIDI. The tutorial websites that I use (Flowkey, Fender Play, etc.) appear only to support Google related browsers that support Web MIDI.

Lastly, a request for the future. My favorite window manager, the Calm Window Manager, doesn't appear to be available, which seen from my perspective is pretty weird as dependencies are limited, and there is a lot of bang for the buck, so to speak...

Re: Basic MIDI related apps unavailable?

Reply #1 – 21 May 2023, 02:16:04

Hello and welcome,

About fifteen AUR packages have been running on one of my PCs for a few years, and as many from Arch.

VMPK is available on the arch repositories:

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pacman -Ss VMPK 
community/vmpk 0.8.8-1 (pro-audio)
    Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard

https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories

cwm is available on AUR repositories:

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yay cwm
7 aur/rocwmma 5.4.1-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Library for accelerating mixed precision matrix multiplication
6 aur/hikari-darcs 1:1.1.0.20200502185221-1 (+0 0.00) (Obsolète : 2022-11-01) 
    Stacking Wayland compositor with additional tiling capabilities, heavily inspired by the Calm Window manager (cwm)
5 aur/mcwm-git 20130209.2.r11.gee7d9df-3 (+4 0.00) 
    A minimalist floating window manager written on top of the XCB
4 aur/mcwm 20130209.2-5 (+5 0.00) 
    A minimalist floating window manager written on top of the XCB
3 aur/cwm-git 20220430-1 (+9 0.00) 
    Fork of calmwm, a clean and lightweight window manager (git version)
2 aur/hikari 1:2.3.3-4 (+16 0.01) 
    Stacking Wayland compositor with additional tiling capabilities, heavily inspired by the Calm Window manager (cwm)
1 aur/cwm 7.1-3 (+27 0.00) 
    Fork of calmwm, a clean and lightweight window manager
==> Paquets à installer (ex. 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)