[LAU] JACK MIDI - where? how?

[Ken Restivo]

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:20:44PM -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> On 6/4/07, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 6/4/07, carmen <_ at whats-your.name> wrote:
> >> to get jackd to see your alsa midi devices, you have to do some extra 
> >work. namely use http://subversion.jackaudio.org/jack/branches/midi/jack 
> >and add the -X flag to jackd initiation (i could only get raw working)
> >
> >Midi driver is the the trunk already :)
> >http://subversion.jackaudio.org/jack/trunk
> 
> so just to make sure I understand you correctly, to get jack midi
> working on my box I would need to completely uninstall the debian
> version and install from source, correct?
> 

I am using synths that require JACK MIDI support, such as AZR3, using the Debian Sid binary package of the released 0.103 jackd. Haven't had any need to compile anything.

JACK MIDI seems to work just fine in the released jackd package. I use the alsaseq2jackmidi utility to access it. The connections show up in the released QJackCtl, jack_lsp, and aconnect. I connect my synth to alsaseq2jackmidi using MIDI, then connect alsaseq2jackmidi to the synth using jack.

I'm told that yet-to-be-released SVN versions of jackd do the bridging within itself, obviating the need for this alsaseq2jackmidi kludge, but I haven't had any need for that yet. 

- -ken
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