Atte Andrà Jensen wrote: > I need to do backup of some hardware synths on my arch system. I first > tried simplesysexxer, but it doesn't seem to receive anything (actually > the very first time I tried, "something" happened, but since then it's > been dead). So I looked at amidi, but "amidi -l" fails like this: > > atte@vestbjerg:~$ amidi -l > Dir Device Name > cannot determine device number: Inappropriate ioctl for device This happens if the snd-rawmidi module is not loaded. Apparently, you do not have any kernel driver using raw MIDI ports. > I should note that my physical midiin is located on my edirol (FA66) > firewire audio interface, and I use a2jmidid to bridge between alsa-midi > and jack-midi. a2jmidid creates sequencer ports, not raw MIDI ports. If you want to use amidi to access those ports, load snd-virmidi and connect it to a2jmidid. (This won't help you if it is Jack's FFADO driver that drops SysEx messages.) Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
