[LAU] Denemo with ALSA MIDI, how?

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:40:42AM +0100, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> Am Freitag 12 November 2010, 05:38:05 schrieb Ken Restivo:
> > I downloaded and installed the latest Denemo 0.8.2, and I'm very confused as to how to get it to work with ALSA MIDI.
> > 
> > There's a menu command under "Input", that says "MIDI Input". I select it, and it gives an extraordinarily unhelpful error message: "Could not start MIDI input". Okk, great, I look around for a preference or settings menu item somewhere which would allow me to configure MIDI input, but, alas, nothing. Same with MIDI output: I want to send it to my ALSA MIDI synths.
> > 
> > Any ideas? Sorry for being so lazy, but I'm not in the mood to go surfing through the source code at the moment.
> 
> 
> In Edit/Change Preferences I see the rightmost tab called Audio/MIDI.
> 
>  - Enable "Auto-start midi in"
>  - Set up InternalSynth to use jack Audio and alsa_seq MIDI drivers
>  - Restart Denemo
>  - In Input menu, choose MIDI input
>  - Connect MIDI keyboard to fluidsynth ALSA MIDI port
>  - Enter notes with my keyboard
> 
> It seems that you have to manually connect the audio out ports of Denemo
> once, but subsequently it saves and restores connection state at program 
> quit/start.
> 

Thanks, but if it were there, I'd have already found it.

http://restivo.org/misc/denemo.png

There is no such tab in my Edit/Change preferences!

This is version 0.8.2

-ken