Unix operating systems

The device-independent part of JAZZ (the sequencer / editor part) is known to run on Linux, Sun-OS4 and Solaris2 systems, but should compile and run (with some minor hacking) on any system supporting Unix/X11. To compile you will need the "wxwin" GUI package (free) together with either XView (free) or Motif.

The device-dependant part (midi-driver) currently supports:

• OSS/Free (OSS/Linux) midi driver API (formerly known as USS/Lite and VoxWare). This API is included in later Linux kernels. The JAZZ code interfacing OSS has only been tested on Linux platforms.
• JAZZ's native MPU-401 midi driver (requires an intelligent-mode MPU-401 interface-card). The driver is implemented as a Linux kernel load-module. In this mode JAZZ works as a TCP/IP-based client/server application allowing the sequencer/editor and the midi-driver to run on separate computers. The native driver has better support for the MPU-401 than the JAZZ/OSS solution (e.g. support for external timing source).