On 21 April 2014 at 2:30, <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ---- Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Did you try a USB<>MIDI connector? Not yet. I don't own one. If a USB<>MIDI device is the correct way to get MIDI hardware communication to work, then I'll get such a unit. But, I don't want to buy one for troubleshooting, if it's not needed. Is it generally agreed that a USB<>MIDI unit is needed? The last time I did this I used a Soundblaster card which had a game/MIDI port and that worked fine to communicate over MIDI. Now I have a Delta 1010 with MIDI ports. But, that's the only MIDI connected within my computer. I haven't been able to get that to work for me. So far, nobody suggested that this shouldn't work, nor how to get it to work, if it's supposed to work. Thanks... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
