[LAU] alsa midi and jack midi in qjackctl

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:58:46PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Atte Andre Jensen <atte.jensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'd like to play azr-3 from my usb midi keyboard. However in qjackctl
> > the keyboard shows up as alsa midi and azr-3 shows up as jack midi (as
> > far as I understand it).
> >
> > How do I go about this? I seem to remember some solution that let's alsa
> > mide show up as jack midi or the other way around. But I couldn't even
> > dig it out from google.
> >
> > Any help appreciated, thanks in advance.
> 
> make sure you either
> 
>   (a) run the ALSA backend's JACK/ALSA bridge (-X seq on the command
> line, or lower left
>         corner of qjackct's setup dialog)
> 

There is no such option -X on jackd! I'm running 0.116.1



>   (b) run a bridge client such as a2jmidid

I tried it, and had terrible stuck-notes problems. Instead I've been using a slightly-hacked alsaseq2jackmidi daemon for years with decent results.

-ken