Hi Clemens, Just some added information. We connected a Kurzweil K2000R to the 8x8 port 7 and are able to control information going to that device. So the routing aspects are working. It's just the /dev/snd/midiC1D0 file that's not happening. ron --- Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > R Parker wrote: > > I still don't understand where the usb-midi i/o > device is. > > ... > > There's no messages passing through > /dev/snd/midiC1D0 > > This file handles all nine ports. The ALSA library > uses a magic IOCTL to > select the desired port; when you access the file > directly, you get the > first port only. > > If possible, you should use a program that can > access MIDI ports via the > ALSA library (the 8x8's ports would be named > "hw:1,x", x = 0..8). > > If you want to access other MIDI ports than the > first with a device file, > you have to load the snd-virmidi driver, which will > give you some virtual > MIDI ports, and to connect these ports to the 8x8's > ports with aconnect. > > > HTH > Clemens > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
