[PlanetCCRMA] Can get jackd to run

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 00:12 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2006 21:38, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:35 -0800, rick parker wrote:
> > > --- Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 18 February 2006 06:38, rick parker
> > > > wrote:
> > > > [MUNCH]
> > > > Hi Nick. The first thing I notice from your first
> > > > post was that the Midi
> > > > patchbay was not available. The Midi patchbay has
> > > > nothing to do with Jack,
> > > > but is a facility to enable Midi connections in
> > > > Qjackctl. Run /sbin/lsmod on
> > > > the command line as user. The module you're looking
> > > > for is snd-seq-midi,
> > > > which you will no doubt see is missing. To force
> > > > loading of this, again on
> > > > the command line, this time as root, type the
> > > > following.
> > > > /sbin/chkconfig alsasound on .  The snd-seq-midi
> > > > module should now be loaded
> > > > each time you boot up.
> > >
> > > The sound card I'm using, the M-Audio Delta 1010,
> > > doesn't have midi, should I still follow these
> > > instructions?
> >
> > If it is the 1010 it has midi i/o, the connectors are in the breakout
> > box.
> >
> Hi Fernando. An academic question. I have to load snd-seq-midi so that midi 
> connections show up in Qjackctl (I'm using Audigy2 soundblaster) . If you're 
> using an M-Audio Delta 1010, do you still have to load the snd-seq-midi 
> module, or are all these midi connections handled in the 1010's breakout box? 

Hmmm, if you do not have snd-seq-midi loaded I think you will still have
the raw midi ports in the 1010 available (see what shows in
"cat /proc/asound/devices" before loading snd-seq-midi). 

Not many programs can use that these days, the raw midi ports don't do
much except pass midi commands to or from the external hardware
interface. 

When you load snd-seq-midi you get support for the alsa sequencer api,
which seq api aware apps can use to communicate between themselves as
well as with the external hardware midi ports. 

-- Fernando



> Just to improve my knowledge. Nigel.