DJ-BSD: userspace MIDI escapades in FreeBSD
Computing has its warts, fun and rewards, but sometimes other creative urges come to light, such as DJing and music production. How do we leverage our favourite operating system family to act on said creative urges?
This programme will cover the tooling and setup needed for anyone to start DJing and producing music, using as much open source as possible. Those familiar with or interested in other aspects of signal processing may see some parallels in concepts like flowgraph design and implementation.
Following BSDCan 2024's overview of DJing and music production in FreeBSD, plus BSDCan 2025's audio stack overview, this programme dives further into how MIDI fits into the picture. Instead of turntables and specially-crafted timecode on records, MIDI controllers will feature for the demo.