[LAU] Bridging alsa and jack midi

[Tim E. Real]

On September 29, 2014 04:25:04 PM Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:22:36PM -0400, Tim E. Real wrote:
> > On September 27, 2014 04:19:10 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > Perhaps OT, perhaps not.
> > > 
> > > [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ amidi -l
> > > Dir Device    Name
> > > IO  hw:0,0    HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1
> > > IO  hw:1,0    TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI
> > > IO  hw:2,0    TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI
> > > IO  hw:3,0,0  nanoKONTROL MIDI 1
> > > IO  hw:4,0,0  USB Device 0x170b:0x11 MIDI 1
> > > 
> > > Currently I need to manually connect the TerraTec cards MIDI ports. Is
> > > there a way to give both cards an unique name? JFTR the TerraTec cards
> > > have different IRQs. It would be comfortable if e.g. aj-snapshot could
> > > distinguish both cards.
> > 
> > Can you, or someone, please tell me what happens in a case like this?
> > Each day he boots his computer, is it guaranteed
> > 
> >  TerraTec A  = hw:1 and TerraTec B = hw:2 ?
> 
> I'm not sure, but would a udev rule help here? That's the first thing
> that springs to mind. It would seem that hw:1 and hw:2 are physically
> fixed or are they named during the boot process?

Thanks. Found this reeeally simple instruction for udev:

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Changing_card_IDs_with_udev

Check it out Ralf.

It looks like you can even set your own device names ! Awesome.

A link to this may also be on the Jack website.

Tim.