Re: MIDI hardware with Linux

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On 21/04/14 16:09, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

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


amidi -l  ?


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