On 04/21/2014 05:09 AM, 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?
I mentioned it because you said the Mackie has only MIDI ports. If your
computer has a MIDI port, you don't need an adapter. But if you don't
have a MIDI port on the computer, a single port USB<>MIDI adapter is
pretty cheap.
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