Re: [linux-audio-user] Connecting a MIDI keyboard

From: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 05 2006 - 15:36:18 EEST

lanas wrote:
> What looked simple is not. I have this Yamaha Psr-260 keyboard. I
> want to use it to play the ZynAddSubFX synth.
>
> So I start a MIDI cable from the OUT of the keyboard and connect it
> to the IN MIDI jack of the M-Audio 1010LT card. So far so good I guess.

OK.

> Then I start jack using Qjackctl, and press the green button. I also
> start the ZynSubAddFX synth and it shows up in the jack connect dialog
> box, which looks like this:
>
> Readable Clients / Output Ports
>
> + 14LMidi Through
> - 16:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI
> 0:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI
>
> Writable Clients / Input Ports
>
> - 129:ZynSubAddFX
> 0: ZynAddSubFX
>
> So I connect the last two entries together.
>
> I play a few notes on the keyboard and only the built-in Yamaha
> sounds are resounding, no Zyn.

Please check that your keyboard is configured to send data to its MIDI
Out. When you can hear the built-in sounds, "Local Off" isn't enabled.

Use "aseqdump -p 16:0" to check if the Delta ports receives any data.

HTH
Clemens
Received on Tue Sep 5 16:15:20 2006

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