Re: [LAU] Control Alesis SR-16 drum machine with midi via jack

From: Scott <lau@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Apr 18 2009 - 10:00:03 EEST

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> On Sat, April 18, 2009 12:11 am, Scott wrote:
>> I have an Alesis SR-16 drum machine that I want to control with muse (or
>> seq24) via midi. the SR-16 plugs into my EchoAudio AudioFire12 (AF12)
>> midi ports. My computer is running Fedora 10 CCRMA. I'm using jack,
>> a2jmidi, and muse. I'm not sure where I'm confused - I may have Muse,
>> jack, or a2jmidi misconfigured.
>
> 1. In case you don't know, you don't have to use JACK MIDI
> if you don't want to. Most JACK Audio apps work just fine
> using ALSA for midi.
>
> 2. Instead of a2jmidi, have you tried:
>
> $ jackd -d alsa -Xseq
>
> This is the built-in ALSA-to-JACK midi bridge.

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but since my sound card (the AF12) which houses the midi in/out
is a firewire device which requires the ffado firewire driver then I must use jack and
create the alsa/jack bridge with a2jmidi. Is this right?

> Another choice: The Non Sequencer (http://non-sequencer.tuxfamily.org/)
> is very much like seq24 and uses JACK MIDI.

Looks awesome. I'll check it out tomorrow.

-Scott
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