[PlanetCCRMA] getting midi to work?

[Linux Media]

Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> I'm hoping to just play a midi file using pmidi on fc10 and failing. 
> don't normally use midi so I'm completely clueless at this point.
> I have an external midi keyboard hooked through a quattro card.
> pmidi -l returns two ports
> 14:0     Midi Through                      Midi Through Port-0
>   16:0     USB Audio Quattro                 USB Audio Quattro MIDI 1
> 
> but neither seem to work (no sound).
> the man pages for pmidi state that it needs snd-seq-midi to work. That 
> used to be define in /etc/modprobe.conf but not any longer.
> having gotten nowhere with pmidi I tried qtractor + jack
> qtractor doesn't appear on the midi tab of jackctl  (only the audio tab) 
> from within qtractor the output setup shows both midi ports but won't let 
> me connect qtractor to usb quattro.
> Am I missing something basic or is there some problem with quattro's midi?
> 
> thanks
> Oded
> (I also tried to test midi in/out in pd but didn't get anything to work)

Try adding '-X seq' to the end of your jackd command line (leave out the 
quotes of course).

Rocco