Enable standard MIDI support via ALSA Sequencer

Official Hardware UNO Family UNO Q
1

Arduino UNO Q is very close to being a capable standalone platform for music and MIDI applications, but the current kernel does not include ALSA Sequencer support.

On the current system:

Kernel: 7.0.0-g122c2c22d838

# CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER is not set

/dev/snd/seq is missing

modprobe snd_seq:
FATAL: Module snd_seq not found

Enabling:

CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m

and optionally:

CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=m

would open many possibilities with software that already supports standard MIDI ports, including Mixxx, Pure Data, Chromium Web MIDI, synthesizers, plugin hosts, virtual MIDI routing and USB MIDI controllers.

This appears to be a relatively small kernel configuration change with a broad practical impact.

Would you consider enabling ALSA Sequencer support in the standard UNO Q kernel?

2

Trying to connect a nano keyboard 2 to Arduino uno Q but I'm facing the same issue. Any update on this issue, next release Will supporto alsa sequencer?

3

Does anybody know a turn around to solve this issue or we need to wait a new kernel update?

Thanks

Francesco