Hi, Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:39:11 -0400 lanas <lanas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > Folks, > > What looked simple is not. I have this Yamaha Psr-260 keyboard. I > want to use it to play the ZynAddSubFX synth (one of these days I'll > know how to write that name I guess, if only by multiple repeated > tries). > > So I start a MIDI cable from the OUT of the keyboard and connect it > to the IN MIDI jack of the M-Audio 1010LT card. So far so good I > guess. This is only an hard guess. The first time I've connected the midi cable to my keyboard I took some time to discover that the INPUT plug had to be plugged in the MIDI-OUTPUT keybord port, and the OUTPUT plug to the MIDI-INPUT port on the keyboard. > > Then I start jack using Qjackctl, and press the green button. I > also start the ZynSubAddFX synth (looks like a Polish name, guess > that was the spiritual connection) and it shows up in the jack > connect dialog box, which looks like this: > > Readable Clients / Output Ports > > + 14LMidi Through > - 16:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI > 0:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI > > Writable Clients / Input Ports > > - 129:ZynSubAddFX > 0: ZynAddSubFX > > So I connect the last two entries together. The Zyn synth panel > shows MIDI channel 1 selected. Jack uses the ALSA driver. >From the panel window you should see a moving graph-bar if you were sending midi notes on some channel, even if you can hear the sound only if the corresponding channel is activated (via the check box). > I play a few notes on the keyboard and only the built-in Yamaha > sounds are resounding, no Zyn. If I use the Zyn virtual keyboard, I > can hear the software synth all right. > > The mic input of the 1010LT works fine, as well as the rendering > of sounds made by Zyn and Hydrogen. So I presume the card is OK. > Maybe the MIDI cable is not, so I changed it. To no avail. > > Systems are Fedora 5 CCRMA and Studio64. > > Is there something else to be done in order to use a MIDI keyboard > to trigger sounds created by the Linux box ? Or should I start to > think that the keyboard itself is somehow damaged ? There is anything special to do. Check if your keyboard is actually sending some midi note through the cable. My 0.02 € cents. Cheers, ~ Antonio
