23 Feb
2013
23 Feb
'13
5:16 p.m.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:06:16 -0600 (CST)
Brent Busby <brent(a)keycorner.org> wrote:
Usually when I want to send sysex dumps to midi
hardware, I just use the
amidi command from the shell, but when QJackCtl is already running
(along with lots of other Jack apps), the raw device is already in use
by Jack and I can't connect to it at the raw Alsa level anymore.
Since it's kind of a pain to have to shut down my whole Jack session
just to send a sysex dump, is there an easy way I could just sysex
through Jack? Are there any shell commands I should know about that let
you do this through Jack Midi rather than Alsa Midi?
I don't know if there's such a tool. But AFAIK jack would only block
the raw MIDI device when you use "-X raw" to use the raw MIDI driver in
jack. Do you need that driver? If you don't, you can use the "seq"
driver instead. I find that one more useful anyway. You can change that
in Setup -> Settings in qjackctl. (Also, checking "Enable client/port
aliases" in Setup -> Display shows you readable MIDI device names in
the qjackctl MIDI tab, instead of the useless JACK default names.)