[LAU] Denemo with ALSA MIDI, how?

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> 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...
> 

Ah! Thanks, yes I did get confused surfing through your archive of tarballs, and thought 0.8.2 was the latest.

OK, I have got the settings now as this:
http://restivo.org/misc/denemo2.png

And I now have this:

client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
    0 'Timer           '
    1 'Announce        '
        Connecting To: 15:0
client 128: 'FLUID Synth (8149)' [type=user]
    0 'Synth input port (8149:0)'


MIDI input works! Very nice.
	
I'd also rather not use the internal fluidsynth, but rather patch the ALSA MIDI output of Denemo into my own synths. Is there a way to simply get it to give me an alsa_seq in and out, and let me patch in my own keyboard and synths, rather than using its internal one? 

-ken