Crypto wrote: > I am also not sure if I got the USB MIDI part correctly: what I have is an > external USB device that offers two IN/OUT ports having standard 5 pin DIN > connectors each to connect to other standard MIDI devices. So this device is > not transferring USB MIDI data - it is imho simply converting ordinary MIDI > data into USB data without further manipulation, That "USB data" *is* USB MIDI data; the USB device has to convert from the MIDI encoding to the USB MIDI encoding. > then inside the notebook ALSA applications see the UM2 connectors as a > standard MIDI hardware port each. Yes, because the driver converts the data back. > So the hardware ports that I see denoted as UM2 have got to be ALSA sequencer > ports. Yes. Actually, there are also raw MIDI ports for OSS applications. Does KeyKit have ports that are listed by "aplaymidi -l" (ALSA sequencer ports), or does it want to read from devices named /dev/midi* (OSS ports)? Best regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
