[LAU] Writing midi events via Alsa/Jack

[Johannes Kroll]

Hi Bill!

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 20:18:23 +0100
Bill Purvis <bill at billp.org> wrote:

> Dear LAU friends!
> 
> [...] One odd thing I noticed was that QJackCtl shows my programs 
> output port and the Yoshimi input ports
> on the ALSA page, rather than the MIDI page. I now want to connect up 
> the Calf Fluidsynth, but that
> shows the input ports on the MIDI page.

Basically there are two separate MIDI software interfaces, Jack MIDI and
ALSA MIDI. To create a bridge between the two, you can use a2jmidid:
http://apps.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/a2jmidid

Best,
Johannes