[LAU] jackd without MIDI

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Nov 17 16:12:02 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, November 17, 2015 9:13 am, Paul Davis wrote:
> > ALSA considers PCM and MIDI devices on the same "card" to be entirely
> > independent...
> > If JACK (or any other app) uses ALSA RAW MIDI, then the device access is
> > exclusive. ALSA Sequencer MIDI implies shared access.
>
> So problem solved?  Jonetsu needs to either have jackd not touch ALSA, or
> use the seq interface, then configure Bitwig to use jack audio and ALSA
> MIDI.
>

depends on whether or not bitwig uses the ALSA raw MIDI API. if it does,
then JACK (and everything else) should not touch ALSA MIDI at all. If
Bitwig uses the ALSA sequencer API, then things should be fine either way.
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