impro-visor: how to get MIDI output

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impro-visor: how to get MIDI output

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I can't seem to get impro-visor to have MIDI output show up or connect or anything to actually work. I'm using KXStudio… help?
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Re: impro-visor: how to get MIDI output

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I believe you need to use virmidi, i.e. do "sudo modprobe snd-virmidi" to create "virtual midi ports" for Improvisor which will be visible to Jack (not that I really understand what a "virtual midi port" is.

I tried to install the latest Improvisor, 8.11 on kxstudio 14.04 but cannot get it to run. First the zip file does not contain the installation shell script (Impro-Visor_unix_8_11.sh) which, however, I was able to find by searching the Improvisor Yahoo support forum. I don't know what you're supposed to do with the code in the zip file, there seem to be no instructions included. So I ran the installation script, but then found that Java 1.8 is needed, and I only got 1.7 (OpenJDK version). I downloaded the Oracle jre1.8.0_111 tar file but don't know how to install that (only RPM available no deb). Then I found I had an old Impro-Visor_unix_7_0.sh script which I was able to run and install Improvisor 7.0. Unfortunately, that does not run due to a java error, so make OpenJDK java does not work with Improvisor(?)

Anyway, how did you get Improvisor to run?
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Re: impro-visor: how to get MIDI output

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I just installed impro-visor from the KXStudio repos, and ran it. No issues. I'm actually on KDE Neon, based on 16.04. The install included some Java dependencies.

That snd-virmidi thing worked! what is that? Why can't it just use ALSA MIDI?

Would the best easy way to work in the future be to create a bash alias for improvisor that is something like `sudo modprobe snd-virmidi && impro-visor`?
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Re: impro-visor: how to get MIDI output

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For a program with some similiar functionality, you may want to try my BackupBand software.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/backupband/

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Re: impro-visor: how to get MIDI output

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j_e_f_f_g wrote:For a program with some similiar functionality, you may want to try my BackupBand software.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/backupband/
Thanks, looks really neat! Hope to find time to try it soon
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