[LAU] ALSA, Java and MIDI ports

[Jan Weil]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 16:43 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> > I suppose SUN's jdk only uses raw midi ports, that's why you do not
> > see it in qjackctl, and your HDSP is hw:0 ;)
> > So, select it, but note that raw midi access is exclusive, so no other
> > application will be able to use your midi port neither as a raw, nor
> > as a sequencer device.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I have found such words about rawmidi at Sun's FAQs. But, frankly speaking,
> I know nothing about "raw midi". The aim is  to connect the app's output port to
> qsynth input port. Is it possible?

If I am not mistaken, this should be possible using the virmidi kernel
module. As root try 'modprobe snd_seq_virmidi'. After that virmidi ports
should be accessible from Impro-Viser as well as from qsynth.

Hope that helps

Jan