[linux-audio-user] Connecting a MIDI keyboard

[Clemens Ladisch]

lanas wrote:
>   What looked simple is not.  I have this Yamaha Psr-260 keyboard.  I
> want to use it to play the ZynAddSubFX synth.
> 
>   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.

OK.

>   Then I start jack using Qjackctl, and press the green button.  I also
> start the ZynSubAddFX synth 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.
> 
>   I play a few notes on the keyboard and only the built-in Yamaha
> sounds are resounding, no Zyn.

Please check that your keyboard is configured to send data to its MIDI
Out.  When you can hear the built-in sounds, "Local Off" isn't enabled.

Use "aseqdump -p 16:0" to check if the Delta ports receives any data.


HTH
Clemens