Dear LAU friends! A long time ago I acquire a Korg X5DR synth module. I then wrote a simple midi sequencer that wrote stuff out to the module via the serial port (the X5DR has a 56Kb serial input in addition to the conventional 32Kb Midi ports). This worked fine and I had lots of fun playing it. Things moved on and my machines now no longer have serial ports, but a USB/Serial adaptor cable got me over that one. More recently again, things have on a lot, and after a certain amount of trial and error I managed to adapt my sequencer to talk to to Yoshimi via Jack using the Alsa routines and QJackCtl to set up the links. 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. Anyone with enough knowhow of programming the ALSA interfaces willing to sort out my problem? My present code for setting up the port has: out_port = snd_seq_create_simple_port(seq, "MFE: output port", SND_SEQ_PORT_CAP_READ|SND_SEQ_PORT_CAP_SUBS_READ, SND_SEQ_PORT_TYPE_APPLICATION); which sounds odd (READ?) but I gather the parameters actually specify the far end, rather than the near end. I'd like to be able to use this with Fluidsynth and Yoshimi it different times, but I guess I'd need to have a command line option to vary the code to get the different class of outputs. Any pointers to something that can explain the difference between the two categories would be most helpful Many thanks Bill -- +----------------------------------------+ | Bill Purvis | | email: bill(a)billp.org | +----------------------------------------+