[LAU] Update Phasex: Sequencer suggestions?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 16:46 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> A somewhat related question: What is the currently recommended way to
> bridge between alsa and jack midi? For now I start jack with '-X
> alsa_midi', which seems to work, at least in one direction.

I don't know. It might be different for jack1 and jack2 and for
different releases.

For a current project, just interrupted by a cold, the script to restore
sessions uses this combination, jack2 1.9.10-1 "-Xalsarawmidi" and
"a2jmidid", assumed it still should be the best solution to minimize
MIDI jitter, when using external synths, while for the few bars I played
until now, I don't use external synths. If this shouldn't satisfy me,
then I would start searching the LAU and LAD archives.

Btw. yet the project only uses synth plugins and the bridge isn't
needed:

$ cat /home/music/arch2014.1/start.03.01
# [snip]

# Kill
$sessiond/aj-snapwrap --killall
killall -9 -wq qjackctl qtractor zita-at1 jkmeter meterbridge a2jmidid jackd hdspmixer

# Restore session
roxterm --tab -n "♪ hdspmixer"   -e "hdspmixer"                                              ; sleep 2
roxterm --tab -n "♪ jackd"       -e "jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p256"        ; sleep 2
roxterm --tab -n "♪ a2jmidid"    -e "a2jmidid -e"                                            ; sleep 2
#roxterm --tab -n "♪ meterbridge" -e "meterbridge -t jf left right -n jellyfish"              ; sleep 2
roxterm --tab -n "♪ jkmeter"     -e "jkmeter -C -type k20 -name phasecorrelator"             ; sleep 2
roxterm --tab -n "♪ at1 left"    -e "zita-at1 -name at1_left"                                ; sleep 2
roxterm --tab -n "♪ at1 right"   -e "zita-at1 -name at1_right"                               ; sleep 2
roxterm --tab -n "♪ qtractor"    -e "qtractor $sessiond/arch2014.1.$sessionv.qtr"            ; sleep $sleepsec
roxterm --tab -n "♪ qjackctl"    -e "qjackctl"                                               ; sleep $sleepsec
roxterm --tab -n "♪ aj-snapshot" -e "$sessiond/aj-snapwrap -rx $sessiond/.tmp.$sessionv.ajs"

exit