[LAU] MIDI hardware with Linux

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---- Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at cosgroves.us> wrote: 
> 
> On 20 April 2014 at 7:54, "F. Silvain" <silvain at freeshell.de> wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Cosgrove, Apr 20 2014:
> > ...
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to interconnect the *MIDI* of the following:
> > >
> > > - M-Audio Delta 1010 hardware MIDI ports
> > > - Mackie Control Universal hardware MIDI ports
> > > - Alesis QS8 hardware synth
> > > - a2jmidid software MIDI interface
> > > - Ardour jack-MIDI ports
> > >
> > > What can you folks advise?
> > Hey Kevin,
> > I've got the same card and I use MIDI everytime I work with my system.
> > Why do you use a2jmidid, when JACK has its own option?
> > jackd ... -Xseq
> > Valid for JACK1 and JACK2 (JACKmp).
> 
> The Mackie above is a control surface.  I want to use it with Ardour.
> Here are some instructions for that.  The 1st link references the 
> 2nd, which references the 3rd.
> 
> http://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/
> 
> http://manual.ardour.org/using-control-surfaces/devices-using-mackielogic-control-protocol/mackie-control-setup-on-linux/
> 
> http://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/setting-up-midi/midi-on-linux/
> 
> That last link says to "uncheck the Misc > Enable ALSA Sequencer support"
> which is the same thing as avoiding "-Xseq".  After going through that,
> and going with "a2jmidid -e" then my Behringer BCF2000 control surface
> worked just fine.
> 
> But, the Mackie has no USB port, only MIDI ports, and I have not been
> able to get anything Linux to talk to it.

Did you try a USB<>MIDI connector?

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