Here's a chance to hear me singing and playing my guitar, an Ovation Celebrity Deluxe. I'm not Johnny B. Goode, but I do lead singalongs on a regular basis for some church groups I'm involved in. (I'm WELS Lutheran.)
I recorded the tracks below in 1996, mostly for the kindergarten teacher at my church to use in singalongs with her class. All but the last are songs I'd been doing as songleader at Tree of Life Lutheran Bible Camp. Fair warning: You probably don't want to listen to these unless you're a friend of mine or a former camper at Tree of Life. They are, uh, kind of uneven. The last is a piece I had just learned in one of Carol McComb's guitar classes. It's probably the most listenable of the lot. Thanks go to my friend Sarah Pundt Halfen for backup vocals on some of the tracks.
The tracks are compressed in Ogg Vorbis format. Your media player may already accept this format, but if you find it doesn't, you can get a player that does from the Vorbis web site. Free players are available for Linux, Windows, and other operating systems.
I've done a tiny bit of work on the ALSA sound drivers that is now included in the official sources (starting with 0.9.0beta5). I added support to card-serial.c for the Midiator Systems MS-124W and MS-124T serial port MIDI adaptors.
Background: A serial port MIDI adaptor is useful if you need to control external MIDI devices from a laptop or other computer that does not come with a MIDI port on its sound card. Such an adaptor converts from the RS-232 signal levels and data rates that a standard PC serial port can produce to the MIDI standard of 5 mA current loop at 31.25 kb/s. Because of the difference in data rates, the adaptor typically must do some extra handshaking to prevent the PC from sending data to the serial port faster than it can be relayed to the MIDI port. In some cases there is also extra handshaking to select among multiple MIDI ports (as with the MS-124W). This extra handshaking tends to work differently for each serial port MIDI adaptor on the market, and is usually undocumented. My addition to the ALSA driver implements the necessary handshaking for MS-124W and MS-124T, which fortunately are publicly documented.
I could be persuaded to help with support for other serial adapters as well, such as other Midiator models; please email me if you have a unit you can test with and/or some documentation. I have partial documentation for the Midiator MS-101 and MS-124, but no unit to test with. Note that the MS-124, MS-124W, and MS-124T are not the same; each needs its own driver support. I've also heard from another programmer (Matt Larson) who is working on Portman PC/S support; this is another similar gadget from the Midiman company. I didn't follow up to see whether Matt finished and submitted that code.