[LAU] [ANN] AZR3-JACK released

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 30 December 2007 13:40, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> > > Wild stab in the dark: you have an old version of jackd that doesn't
> > > support JACK MIDI, or doesn't support the particular version of the
> > > JACK MIDI API that AZR3 requires?
> > >
> > > -ken
> >
> > Well OK. I just installed it on Fedora 8, and apart from having to
> > install a few deps it has installed ok.
> >
> > Now I find that qjackctl's midi connect shows AZR3 to alsa_pcm on the
> > audio tab, the midi tab shows nothing where my usb midi keyboard was on
> > the output ports, but AZR3 on the input ports. Going to the Alsa tab, my
> > usb midi keyboard is there, but no connection available to Azr3 on the
> > input ports.
>
> But this has been discussed earlier in this thread, you need nedko's
> a2jmidi to bridge ALSA MIDI ports to JACK MIDI, or use a more recent JACK
> svn checkout and run jackd with -X seq.

First. Apologies about the needless rant yesterday. I had already downloaded 
the a2midi file from Kens post, when I dl'd Azr3, but was frustrated, forgot 
that I'd downloaded the fix, and lost it a bit.

How now do I use alsaseq2jackmidi.c so as to bridge ALSA MIDI ports to JACK 
MIDI? 
>
> > I used to have an "Audio" tab, and a
> > "Midi" tab, and it worked ok. Now for some reason or other some idiot has
> > decided to add an Alsa tab, and everything is totally screwed up. I've
> > got my keyboard on the Alsa tab, and AZR-3 on the midi tab, and no way it
> > seems of connecting the keyboard to AZR3.

Saying that though, all the stuff that was on the MIDI tab, is now on the ALSA 
one, and if I start ZynAddSubFX, Zyn shows up on the ALSA tab, so there is no 
problem in making the connection. 
>
> Recent versions of qjackctl have it this way, the old MIDI tab has been
> renamed to ALSA, and a new MIDI tab is there to show JACK MIDI ports.

OK. I'm obviously not clued up enough about the "new" MIDI tab that is now 
showing JACK MIDI ports. Any links to learn more about JACK MIDI, and why it 
is an important addition.

Thanks for any help.

Nigel.

> > I'm not giving up on this, but would like to know how to play this synth.
> > Nigel.

> Edgar