5 Sep
2006
5 Sep
'06
7:27 a.m.
Hi,
Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:39:11 -0400
lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net> ha scritto:
Folks,
What looked simple is not. I have this Yamaha Psr-260 keyboard. I
want to use it to play the ZynAddSubFX synth (one of these days I'll
know how to write that name I guess, if only by multiple repeated
tries).
So I start a MIDI cable from the OUT of the keyboard and connect it
to the IN MIDI jack of the M-Audio 1010LT card. So far so good I
guess.
This is only an hard guess. The first time I've connected the midi
cable to my keyboard I took some time to discover that the INPUT plug
had to be plugged in the MIDI-OUTPUT keybord port, and the OUTPUT plug
to the MIDI-INPUT port on the keyboard.
Then I start jack using Qjackctl, and press the green button. I
also start the ZynSubAddFX synth (looks like a Polish name, guess
that was the spiritual connection) and it shows up in the jack
connect dialog box, which looks like this:
Readable Clients / Output Ports
+ 14LMidi Through
- 16:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI
0:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI
Writable Clients / Input Ports
- 129:ZynSubAddFX
0: ZynAddSubFX
So I connect the last two entries together. The Zyn synth panel
shows MIDI channel 1 selected. Jack uses the ALSA driver.
From the panel window you should see a moving graph-bar if you were
sending midi notes on some channel, even if you can hear the sound only
if the corresponding channel is activated (via the check box).
I play a few notes on the keyboard and only the
built-in Yamaha
sounds are resounding, no Zyn. If I use the Zyn virtual keyboard, I
can hear the software synth all right.
The mic input of the 1010LT works fine, as well as the rendering
of sounds made by Zyn and Hydrogen. So I presume the card is OK.
Maybe the MIDI cable is not, so I changed it. To no avail.
Systems are Fedora 5 CCRMA and Studio64.
Is there something else to be done in order to use a MIDI keyboard
to trigger sounds created by the Linux box ? Or should I start to
think that the keyboard itself is somehow damaged ?
There is anything special to do. Check if your keyboard is actually
sending some midi note through the cable.
My 0.02 € cents.
Cheers,
~ Antonio