[LAU] MIDI over firewire on Linux?

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 04/19/2014 03:43 AM, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
> I realized there was a possibly significant gap in my knowledge of
> hardware, so I searched, and found that there have been a few Firewire
> devices with both audio and MIDI.  The questions I have are (a) are any
> of them known to work well with current Linux, and (b) how is the MIDI
> supported on the backend, is it ALSA?

i have used focusrite sapphires with good success, both the now 
discontinued pro26 and the pro56. FFADO makes midi available as a 
jackmidi port, so (as others have noted) you will need to run aj2midid 
-e to bridge them to ALSA sequencer clients. i just added it as a 
post-startup command in qjackctl and forgot about it.
can't comment on MIDI timing performance, i only ever used it for 
controllers, but i don't see any reason to have doubts.

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