[LAU] MIDI hardware with Linux

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 20 April 2014 at 7:54, "F. Silvain" <silvain at freeshell.de> wrote:

> Kevin Cosgrove, Apr 20 2014:
> ...
> > I'm trying to figure out how to interconnect the *MIDI* of the following:
> >
> > - M-Audio Delta 1010 hardware MIDI ports
> > - Mackie Control Universal hardware MIDI ports
> > - Alesis QS8 hardware synth
> > - a2jmidid software MIDI interface
> > - Ardour jack-MIDI ports
> >
> > What can you folks advise?
> Hey Kevin,
> I've got the same card and I use MIDI everytime I work with my system.
> Why do you use a2jmidid, when JACK has its own option?
> jackd ... -Xseq
> Valid for JACK1 and JACK2 (JACKmp).

The Mackie above is a control surface.  I want to use it with Ardour.
Here are some instructions for that.  The 1st link references the 
2nd, which references the 3rd.

http://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/

http://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/mackie-control-setup-on-linux/

http://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/setting-up-midi/midi-on-linux/

That last link says to "uncheck the Misc > Enable ALSA Sequencer support"
which is the same thing as avoiding "-Xseq".  After going through that,
and going with "a2jmidid -e" then my Behringer BCF2000 control surface
worked just fine.

But, the Mackie has no USB port, only MIDI ports, and I have not been
able to get anything Linux to talk to it.

> I don't have an external mixer (I assume the Mackie is one)
> but I have synths. Depending on the software I'm running I use
> jack_connect or any patchbay I like or the software itself
> offers a way to connect to a jACK port directly. I've never
> used Ardour, so no help there.  If there is a particular
> problem along the way it will be easier to answer. I hope this
> helped some.

See my above Ardour <--> MIDI <--> Mackie question.

Thanks...


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Kevin