[LAD] FFADO midi ports

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Sun Dec 11 13:46:15 UTC 2011


thijs van severen wrote:
> amidi -l should list all midi out ports that are available to amidi, right?

It lists all ports implemented by an ALSA kernel driver.  It is possible
to implement raw MIDI ports in software, but those are not listed.

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ALSA's raw MIDI interface and sequencer interface are different.
Usually, you want to use the latter.  Try "aplaymidi -l".

> Another question: will a usb midi interface list the midi ports under alsa?

Yes.


Regards,
Clemens



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