On 20 April 2014 at 7:54, "F. Silvain" <silvain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kevin Cosgrove, Apr 20 2014: > ... > > I'm trying to figure out how to interconnect the *MIDI* of the following: > > > > - M-Audio Delta 1010 hardware MIDI ports > > - Mackie Control Universal hardware MIDI ports > > - Alesis QS8 hardware synth > > - a2jmidid software MIDI interface > > - Ardour jack-MIDI ports > > > > What can you folks advise? > Hey Kevin, > I've got the same card and I use MIDI everytime I work with my system. > Why do you use a2jmidid, when JACK has its own option? > jackd ... -Xseq > Valid for JACK1 and JACK2 (JACKmp). The Mackie above is a control surface. I want to use it with Ardour. Here are some instructions for that. The 1st link references the 2nd, which references the 3rd. http://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/ http://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/mackie-control-setup-on-linux/ http://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/setting-up-midi/midi-on-linux/ That last link says to "uncheck the Misc > Enable ALSA Sequencer support" which is the same thing as avoiding "-Xseq". After going through that, and going with "a2jmidid -e" then my Behringer BCF2000 control surface worked just fine. But, the Mackie has no USB port, only MIDI ports, and I have not been able to get anything Linux to talk to it. > I don't have an external mixer (I assume the Mackie is one) > but I have synths. Depending on the software I'm running I use > jack_connect or any patchbay I like or the software itself > offers a way to connect to a jACK port directly. I've never > used Ardour, so no help there. If there is a particular > problem along the way it will be easier to answer. I hope this > helped some. See my above Ardour <--> MIDI <--> Mackie question. Thanks... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
