Supporting MIDI input

[Balthus1989]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
I'm developing a mixer that supports MIDI input, through the usage of PyGame. However, WSL 2 returns several errors, related to ALSA functioning and for the impossibility to handle MIDI devices.

Describe the solution you'd like
MIDI and sound support in WSL 2

Additional context
I previously described the issue here: #7098

[therealkenc]

Really #237

[znmeb]

If your goal is sound / MIDI in WSL, I believe PulseAudio now works, which means consumer grade audio like media players can probably be made to work. But I'd be surprised if "pro" audio would work; there is probably an extra latency that's unavoidable with the emulation hypervisor layer. Can PyGame be compiled against PulseAudio?

[lokucrazy]

has there been any updates on whether wslg will have support for /dev/snd?

[g-l-i-t-c-h-o-r-s-e]

bump

[thoys]

bump

[planetarian]

I'm running into this issue as well. a device simulator I'm working with needs /dev/snd/seq for midi sequencing.

[Hri7566]

bump

[mikacousin]

I need the same thing to communicate with MIDI controllers

[eero-t]

I've been recommending users of the Hatari emulator [1] to switch to Linux when they want to use MIDI.

It would be great if I could recommend them to try / use Hatari under WSL instead!

[1] One of the main professional use-cases for the Atari machines it emulates, was music production, using MIDI.

[7heMech]

Encountered similar issue, MIDI support would be great.

[fornof]

also encountering issues. This means I need to hop out of wsl2 for all my midi live explorations and use powershell/native windows stuff.

[7heMech]

also encountering issues. This means I need to hop out of wsl2 for all my midi live explorations and use powershell/native windows stuff.

Yup, that's why I gave up on WSL and just switched to Linux, much better dev experience.