Re: [Denemo-devel] Newbie getting MIDI K/B to work with ALSA and qjackctl

[Edgar Aichinger]

Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2014, 16:50:19 schrieb Edgar Aichinger:

> I do build for Fedora, but only since mid of December when I incorporated the 
> changes Jeremiah had made to my spec file about 2 months ago (see thread 
> "Help needed" from December), and that's what Philip is using if I remember 
> right.
> Anyway I just checked, and it's true, my build excludes portmidi, because for 
> some reason I still have to investigate, -lportmidi 

sorry, I meant to write -lporttime, see also http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40878

> isn't found wt link time. I'll look into that as soon as possible, perhaps 
> tonight.
> 
> But, I also tried to connect my MIDI keyboard to denemo using the ALSA 
> backend, and it worked well, the only irritation was thatALSA backend was 
> already set, but didn't show in qjackctl's ALSA tab until I selected it 
> again, and hit OK in that dialog...

I've tried a bit and looked at configure.ac but don't know autotools well 
enough to change that test.

Anyway I don't quite understand why us linux users should fall back to portmidi 
when ALSA and JACK MIDI are indeed working perfectly well? I tried both, and 
pressing a key sounds the sf2 piano and the note gets painted in the score...

Edgar

> 
> Edgar
> 
> > > You could try the binary - this you can install without root 
> > > permissions
> > >  http://denemo.org/downloads/denemo-1.1.0-0.linux-x86
> > > 
> > > I'm not able to run this myself, but I believe it works fine on other
> > > distros.
> > 
> > 
> > OK but there is another issue now - when I boot with the MIDI K/B 
> > plugged in, it seems to rearrange the audio cards on the computer or 
> > something because then I can't produce any sound at all!  If I plug the 
> > K/B in after booting, I  still have sound and can at least get life out 
> > of the K/B for other things - just not for use as input to Denemo . .
> > 
> > In any case, it is a pain having to reboot the server all the time - I 
> > will try the same exercise on a laptop, which has the same OS on it but 
> > of course doesn't have all the stuff connected to it that the server 
> > does . . anyway, I'll check out your link and see if that helps at all.
> > 
> > Thanks for the help!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Phil.
> > 
> 
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