[LAU] Problem uploading sysex data to hardware synth

[Brent Busby]

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Neil C Smith wrote:

> On 3 May 2013 19:44, "Brent Busby" <brent at keycorner.org> wrote:
>> Is there any way to do this kind of raw Alsa access with jackd going?
>
> You might be able to use the vir-midi module for this. I looked into this
> to help someone get JACK MIDI into Praxis. Should work for output too.
>
> Bit more about what I did here -
> http://code.google.com/p/praxis/issues/detail?id=31

I checked into this, and unless I'm misunderstanding what the module 
does, it doesn't look like it will help.  It seems to provide a virtual 
port for OSS apps to be able to access the Alsa sequencer ports.  The 
problem is amidi is already a native Alsa program, but it can't access 
the hardware ports because Jack has already grabbed them.  It's not an 
OSS versus Alsa issue, but just that the device is exclusively in use.

It almost seems like what we need is some kind of Jack-aware amidi 
command...

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