Re: [LAU] no connection...

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Crypto <crypto@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Am Friday 21 November 2008 23:30:00 schrieb Preston C.:
>> > Thank you Crypto. I will try what you said about using kmidimon and
>> > then get back with you. Thanks again. I hope I didn't send this to
>> > your private email. It seems that when I hit reply in Gmail it sends
>> > it to people's private address?
>>
>> I tried Kmidimon and got no signal. I attached a screenshot of my
>> desktop and setup.
>
>
> Preston,
>
> I have to admit I am having some trouble here myself which I could not yet
> solve reliably, that is why I respond so late...
>
> It might have to do with the sound device that is selected in kmix (I wrote
> about that issue some other day a while ago).
>
> There are several variables/applications involved that want examination so I
> guess it will take me some time until I can give further details on that.
>
> The problem that I have is that like You I cannot receive MIDI data from an
> external USB device, but in this case kmon showed me that sometimes there is
> a short number of MIDI messages I get and then it all stops and I do not see
> any more messages, and sometimes I get no MIDI messages at all.
>
> As I said a while ago I wrote about this problem and noticed that it could
> have to do with the sound device to which kmix is set to. When You run kmix
> (open it from the task bar) and You have several sound devices for sound
> output then kmix offers a popup menu from which to choose which one You want
> to adjust. I have noticed that I get these hangups when the internal onboard
> sound of my notebook is selected here, and it is all just fine when the USB
> sound device is selected, but now I am not so sure here anymore.
>
> I also had some problems to get qjackctl running properly when there are
> several sound devices available. It seemed the problem could be fixed when
> setting qjackctl to output do "default" device and input from "default"
> device and apart from that set the sound device with the single menu at the
> top menu called "interface". But still I have problems with that and get no
> MIDI data, so I have to have a closer look at what is happening here.
>
> BTW, do You have no MIDI data even when not running a RT kernel? It could also
> be a kernel related problem, as I had no problems with an older RT kernel.
>
> Possible solutions for me:
> Run jackd via command line (only), so I can see exactly what jackd gets when
> run.
>
> Regards,
> Crypto.
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Crypto, you are right! I tried it with a non-RT kernel and everything
worked... except for the major popping sounds. Is there anyway for me
to update my RT kernel, I use CCRMA, and then try it? Thanks a lot.
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