The audio data can be played through any sound device or stored on disk. TiMidity is a MIDI to WAVE converter that uses Gravis Ultrasound(*)-compatible patch files to generate digital audio data from General MIDI files. Pmidi is a straightforward command line program to play Midi files through the ALSA sequencer. KMid uses /dev/sequencer as output device supporting external synths, AWE, FM and GUS cards. It displays the text of karaoke files and changes its colour as it is being played so that the tune can be easily followed. KMid is an X11 / KDE based midi player for Linux and FreeBSD. Notemidi can be used with the MIDIator MS-124W interface, Roland Sound Canvas sound modules, or Yamaha MU-x series sound modules.
#Gus card for busman drivers serial
Notemidi is a device driver for MIDI output via the RS-232 serial port on notebook/laptop computers. It supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and support for full duplex audio.
#Gus card for busman drivers drivers
OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and mixers found on sound cards. OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux and FreeBSD. It also includes a fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware. The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts.
If you are developing, or know of, any other MIDI apps not listed here please drop me a note.
Interest in Linux based MIDI is growing and this list will probably not reflect the true amount of MIDI software available, but should provide a reasonable selection of applications.