[LAU] alsa midi to jack midi

[Ken Restivo]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:59:33AM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 schrieb andy baxter:
> > Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:49:23AM +0000, andy baxter wrote:
> > >> Does anyone know of an easy way to convert alsa midi into jack midi and
> > >> vice versa?
> > > I'm not sure if this qualifies as an easy way, but try this:
> > > http://ll-plugins.sourceforge.net/alsaseq2jackmidi.c
> > It's OK - I found this:
> > http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/
> > which is a command line alsa/jack midi bridge.
> 
> If you are using the alsa-backend of jack for audio, there is a commandline 
> switch to also forward the alsa-hw midi ports to jack-midi directly in jackd.
> If not (because you use a firewire-device for example) a2jmidid has a 
> commandline-option to also bridge the alsa-hw midi ports to jack-midi...
> 

What is this command-line switch, exactly?

There appears to be no such thing in my jackd. I'm using 0.116.1-4.

No ALSA MIDI devices show up in JACK MIDI at all by default. I can run a2jmidid  but I'd rather do it natively inside JACK if possible.

-ken