Lee, I never saw a MPU-401 port at all. A post a few days ago established the fact that ALSA does not support the hardware synth on this card. Playing MIDI appears to be dependant upon getting MIDI generated via software on the Linux machine routed through the soundcard to the external sound canvas, the audio output of the sound canvas being routed back through the soundcard and to the speakers and also able to be captured by some software on the Linux machine to be recorded. Is anything Jack-related needed to do this? I have been told both yes and no, perhaps due to my lack of clarity in explaining what is needed to be accomplished. I've tried running Rosegarden and then Starting qjackctl and since my large blunder it cannot start the Jack server at all (until I do the reinstall). Thanks! Phil Because you never said that you tried connecting Rosegarden's outputs to the MPU-401 port in qjackctl and playing back a midi file with Rosegarden and it didn't work. Lee
