[LAU] Control Alesis SR-16 drum machine with midi via jack

[Scott]

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> On Sat, April 18, 2009 12:11 am, Scott wrote:
>> I have an Alesis SR-16 drum machine that I want to control with muse (or
>> seq24) via midi.  the SR-16 plugs into my EchoAudio AudioFire12 (AF12)
>> midi ports.  My computer is running Fedora 10 CCRMA.  I'm using jack,
>> a2jmidi, and muse.  I'm not sure where I'm confused - I may have Muse,
>> jack, or a2jmidi misconfigured.
> 
> 1. In case you don't know, you don't have to use JACK MIDI
>    if you don't want to.  Most JACK Audio apps work just fine
>    using ALSA for midi.
> 
> 2. Instead of a2jmidi, have you tried:
> 
>       $ jackd -d alsa -Xseq
> 
>    This is the built-in ALSA-to-JACK midi bridge.

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but since my sound card (the AF12) which houses the midi in/out 
is a firewire device which requires the ffado firewire driver then I must use jack and 
create the alsa/jack bridge with a2jmidi.  Is this right?

> Another choice:  The Non Sequencer (http://non-sequencer.tuxfamily.org/)
> is very much like seq24 and uses JACK MIDI.

Looks awesome.  I'll check it out tomorrow.

-Scott