[linux-audio-user] Connecting a MIDI keyboard

[Bert Visser]

Hello,

Try to connect the ports 16:M Audio and 129:ZynAdd.

Don't forget you also have to connect the ZynAdd to the alsa_pcm on the 
audio tab.

If you want to check if there are any events sent you could install 
kmidimon (it's in the CCRMA repo) and connect this to the Yamaha.

Greetings,
Bert
> Folks,
>
>   What looked simple is not.  I have this Yamaha Psr-260 keyboard.  I
> want to use it to play the ZynAddSubFX synth (one of these days I'll
> know how to write that name I guess, if only by multiple repeated
> tries).  
>
>   So I start a MIDI cable from the OUT of the keyboard and connect it
> to the IN MIDI jack of the M-Audio 1010LT card.  So far so good I guess.
>
>   Then I start jack using Qjackctl, and press the green button.  I also
> start the ZynSubAddFX synth (looks like a Polish name, guess that was
> the spiritual connection) and it shows up in the jack connect dialog
> box, which looks like this:
>
>   Readable Clients / Output Ports
>
>   + 14LMidi Through
>   - 16:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI
>     0:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI
>
>   Writable Clients / Input Ports
>
>   - 129:ZynSubAddFX
>     0: ZynAddSubFX
>
>   So I connect the last two entries together.  The Zyn synth panel
> shows MIDI channel 1 selected.  Jack uses the ALSA driver.
>
>   I play a few notes on the keyboard and only the built-in Yamaha
> sounds are resounding, no Zyn.  If I use the Zyn virtual keyboard, I
> can hear the software synth all right.
>
>   The mic input of the 1010LT works fine, as well as the rendering
> of sounds made by Zyn and Hydrogen.  So I presume the card is OK.  Maybe
> the MIDI cable is not, so I changed it.  To no avail.
>
>   Systems are Fedora 5 CCRMA and Studio64.
>
>   Is there something else to be done in order to use a MIDI keyboard to
> trigger sounds created by the Linux box ?  Or should I start to think
> that the keyboard itself is somehow damaged ?
>
> Al
>
>