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

[Jeremiah Benham]

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> 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...

The reason is that portmidi is supposed to autoconnect to a users midi device. This saves a few key strokes. Maybe that is possible also with alsa and jack midi.

Jeremiah

ps. I am unsure how to meet the dependencies of ubuntu using the openbuild system. Most of denemos dependencies are in "universe" repository and is not allowed in OBS. It suggests that I can compile against other OBS build targets but it does not seem documented.

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> Edgar
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> >
> > 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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