[LAU] Denemo with ALSA MIDI, how?

[Edgar Aichinger]

Am Samstag 13 November 2010, 02:46:15 schrieb 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

But 0.8.2 is ancient, latest release is 0.8.20!

You probably have been fooled by the wrong release version number for denemo 
in the latest Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up http://linuxaudio.org/node/122 ? I forgot 
to mention that in my previous mail...

Edgar