On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Crypto <crypto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Friday 21 November 2008 23:30:00 schrieb Preston C.: >> > Thank you Crypto. I will try what you said about using kmidimon and >> > then get back with you. Thanks again. I hope I didn't send this to >> > your private email. It seems that when I hit reply in Gmail it sends >> > it to people's private address? >> >> I tried Kmidimon and got no signal. I attached a screenshot of my >> desktop and setup. > > > Preston, > > I have to admit I am having some trouble here myself which I could not yet > solve reliably, that is why I respond so late... > > It might have to do with the sound device that is selected in kmix (I wrote > about that issue some other day a while ago). > > There are several variables/applications involved that want examination so I > guess it will take me some time until I can give further details on that. > > The problem that I have is that like You I cannot receive MIDI data from an > external USB device, but in this case kmon showed me that sometimes there is > a short number of MIDI messages I get and then it all stops and I do not see > any more messages, and sometimes I get no MIDI messages at all. > > As I said a while ago I wrote about this problem and noticed that it could > have to do with the sound device to which kmix is set to. When You run kmix > (open it from the task bar) and You have several sound devices for sound > output then kmix offers a popup menu from which to choose which one You want > to adjust. I have noticed that I get these hangups when the internal onboard > sound of my notebook is selected here, and it is all just fine when the USB > sound device is selected, but now I am not so sure here anymore. > > I also had some problems to get qjackctl running properly when there are > several sound devices available. It seemed the problem could be fixed when > setting qjackctl to output do "default" device and input from "default" > device and apart from that set the sound device with the single menu at the > top menu called "interface". But still I have problems with that and get no > MIDI data, so I have to have a closer look at what is happening here. > > BTW, do You have no MIDI data even when not running a RT kernel? It could also > be a kernel related problem, as I had no problems with an older RT kernel. > > Possible solutions for me: > Run jackd via command line (only), so I can see exactly what jackd gets when > run. > > Regards, > Crypto. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > Crypto, you are right! I tried it with a non-RT kernel and everything worked... except for the major popping sounds. Is there anyway for me to update my RT kernel, I use CCRMA, and then try it? Thanks a lot. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
