[LAU] MIDI hardware with Linux

[rob]

On 21/04/14 16:09, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
>
> On 21 April 2014 at 2:30, <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> ---- Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at cosgroves.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Did you try a USB<>MIDI connector?
>
> Not yet.  I don't own one.  If a USB<>MIDI device is the correct
> way to get MIDI hardware communication to work, then I'll get
> such a unit.  But, I don't want to buy one for troubleshooting,
> if it's not needed.  Is it generally agreed that a USB<>MIDI unit
> is needed?
>
> The last time I did this I used a Soundblaster card which had a
> game/MIDI port and that worked fine to communicate over MIDI.
> Now I have a Delta 1010 with MIDI ports.  But, that's the only
> MIDI connected within my computer.  I haven't been able to
> get that to work for me.  So far, nobody suggested that this
> shouldn't work, nor how to get it to work, if it's supposed to
> work.
>
> Thanks...
>
> --
> Kevin
>

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