[LAU] midi backend not working in qjackctl?

[Paul Davis]

On 3/12/12, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2012 20:44:50 James Mckernon wrote:
>> I seem to recall that setting qjackctl's 'midi driver' option to 'seq' is
>> supposed to make a copy of all the midi ports in the 'alsa midi' tab under
>> the 'jack midi' tab. This used to work fine for me, but bafflingly doesn't
>> seem to work now. The ports simply don't appear as they should,
>> whatsoever.
>
> Are you using the alsa-backend or the firewire-backend? Only the first
> supports
> what you want. With the firewire-backend you have to use a2jmidid...

You should use a2jmidid even with the ALSA backend.