Hi all — this might be of interest to a limited number on this list, but it really impressed me.

You will need:

• USB MIDI hardware (though you can noodle on the keyboard much less impressively)
  
• a recent Chrome build (possibly Chromium too; if you can enable Web MIDI under chrome://flags, it might work)

Now go here:

    http://resistorsings.com/106/

If you've got your MIDI set up, you've got a decent-ish emulation of a Juno 106. In JavaScript. Talking to your MIDI hardware with minimal latency.

I'm linking this here as my previous experience with MIDI on Linux was highly dispiriting. If I could even get it to work, there was usually a ¼s or more delay between pressing a key and getting a note. This just works. I'm impressed.

cheers,
 Stewart