[LAU] [ANN] a2jmidid version 2 released

[Dragan Noveski]

Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> Dragan Noveski <perodog at gmx.net> writes:
>
>   
>> Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
>>     
>>> a2jmidid is daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in
>>> JACK MIDI system. It is based on jack-alsamidi-0.5 (jackd alsa seq midi
>>> backend) by Dmitry Baikov. The main purpose is to ease usage of legacy,
>>> not JACK-ified apps, in JACK MIDI enabled systems.
>>>
>>> New in this release is addition of configure script (autotools) that
>>> enables compatibility with different JACK MIDI API variants.
>>>
>>> Planned features/improvements:
>>>  * One JACK client per ALSA sequencer client
>>>  * More control on what ports to bridge (currently bridging is fixed to
>>>    non-hardware ports).
>>>  * Real daemonization with log file, init.d script, etc.
>>>
>>> If someone wants to contribute please, contact me, or send patches, or
>>> request inclusion (Gna! a2jmidid project). As usual, packagers are more
>>> than welcome too.
>>>
>>> Homepage with screenshots: http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/
>>>
>>> Tarball download: http://download.gna.org/a2jmidid/
>>>
>>>       
>> hallo nedko, the v2 builds good here, but either there is something
>> wrong or i am doing something wrong, but i do not get any sound out of
>> a2j.
>>
>> what i am doing:
>>
>> -starting a2j
>> -starting specimen or zynjacku(with zyn)
>> -starting vkeybd
>> -now connecting vkeybd from the a2j-midi-tab with the synth (specimen/zyn)
>> -the synth is connected to alsa-audio, but plying with vkeybd - no sound.
>>
>> if i connect the same vkeybd with the same specimen via alsa-midi i
>> can play specimen, or if i start jack-keyboard and connect to zyn, i
>> also get the sound out of the machine.
>> i did some experiments with muse too, but no success.
>>
>> reading this email, do you have a feeling that i am doing sth wrong?
>>     
>
> Unfortunately I have no idea why it does not work at your computer. As
> first step I'd try with some monitoring app connected to a2jmidid output
> port. The two ones I know about are jack_mididump that I think comes
> with jack itself and gmidimonitor (GTK app). Also zynjacku, unless
> started with synth URL at command line, has MIDI indicator in upper
> right corner.
>
>   
it is really strange - i got a2jmidid to work like:

jack-keayboard->a2j->specimen-alsamidi,

but i cannot get it to work another way, like:

vkeybd ->a2j->zyn/specimen/or gmidimonitor.

also in muse, i cannot find the 'a2j' port in the settings dialog....

cheers,
doc