[linux-audio-user] jack+timidity+muse

hello friends, i have successfully built timidity (2.12.0), then jack (0.34.0), and finally muse --with-jack (0.6.0pre5). timidity works by itself, i can play midi files and it sounds. my intention is to use it as a software synthesizer for muse, so i launch it with the option -iA. but muse also requires jack to be running, so first i invoke jack like this: jackd -R -d alsa -d hw:0 and then i can run muse. the problem is that as soon as i have jack running timidity doesn't sound. all right, the real problem is that i never got to fully understand jack, so i have no idea how it works or how i can make things work together. as soon as i begin more confused than before so i give up. any charitable soul could give me a quick hint on how i should invoke timidity and/or jack so that i can use the combination of the two as a software midi device for muse? (i used to use it like this in the past, but that was without jack coming into play) thanks for any help. best, lj