Re: [LAU] MIDI over firewire on Linux?

I use Roland FA-66 with no troubles at all.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier <
nettings@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On 04/19/2014 03:43 AM, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
>
>> I realized there was a possibly significant gap in my knowledge of
>> hardware, so I searched, and found that there have been a few Firewire
>> devices with both audio and MIDI. The questions I have are (a) are any
>> of them known to work well with current Linux, and (b) how is the MIDI
>> supported on the backend, is it ALSA?
>>
>
> i have used focusrite sapphires with good success, both the now
> discontinued pro26 and the pro56. FFADO makes midi available as a jackmidi
> port, so (as others have noted) you will need to run aj2midid -e to bridge
> them to ALSA sequencer clients. i just added it as a post-startup command
> in qjackctl and forgot about it.
> can't comment on MIDI timing performance, i only ever used it for
> controllers, but i don't see any reason to have doubts.
>
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