[LAU] Complete MIDI confusion

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun May 30 04:01:07 UTC 2010


I'm confused, too. But I'm easily confused. I've never had to do 
anything else than run JACK to connect things up. (Well, ZynAddSubFX can 
still be uncooperative, but Yoshimi meets ZynAddSubFX fixes that.)

What "sequencer" are you using, Julian?

Aaron Krister Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that I'm very confused by the whole jack MIDI system. Are
> there some docs to refer to, as in a tutorial? I'm confused why Julien
> needs to use so many Jack applications to set up a single MIDI
> connection...it's certainly less involved with aconnect. And I've
> certainly started jackd with -X and have access to alsa sequencers--so
> why the other timer and bridge apps, etc?
> 
> Best,
> AKJ
> 
> On 5/29/10, Julien Claassen <julien at c-lab.de> wrote:
>> Hello Paul!
>>    There is a very good reason I use j2amidi_bridge, my sequencer _ONLY_
>> understands ALSA sequencer ports, no JACKMIDI support and it doesn't look
>> likely, that it will be implemented soon. :-(
>>    Beyond seeing no reason to use the bridging, should it theoretically
>> work;
>> jack_midi_clock -> bridge (j2a:playback_ -> ALSA 129 -> sequencer?
>>    Kindly yours
>>           Julien


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