I have the same sound chip as yourself. I can't seem to get jack to start. I have not goteen as far as yourself but I will be there shortly configuring midi. Can you please send me your start command for jack. this is what I'm using and I'm getting xrum values od 6.0 msec jackd -d alsa -d hw:0 -r 44100 -H -p64 Good luck MikeD