Midi Issues Jack/Pulseaudio/Alsa the entire baitball
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:37 am
I had to move from AV Linux as it has no functional usergroup and there are unresolvable issues.
I moved to MX18 which is a well supported/ probably best supported Debian distro.
Pulseaudio is working great running all my remote devices such as tablets and all bluetooth audio and does my audio libraries well.
I have a lot of remaining questions though.
This post will only deal with getting MIDI working on MX18 (Debian Stretch).
I have decvices that are recognised but some applications dont see them.
The problem is seemingly with the humungously vague alsa/jack engine. Nobody I speak to knows of any cohesive procedure or manual to deal with the jack behemoth and all its idiosyncrasies.
1) The first question would be to ask for help about how to understand the midi system in Linux and how I can get to a stage that I can route midi optimally and LOGICALLY rather than to rely on heresay. There is no cohesive documentation addressing MIDI for Linux I could find. All just hand waving and trophy reports of no value.
How should I go about to get for example,
My motif XS8 keyboard to connect with midi to an internal synth or some application or software keyboard that will play voices off the Motif XS8? That way I can start building up some route of working pathways through the jack/alsa nightmare.
At the moment the Motif XS8 keyboard shows up as a midi device in vmpk, but selecting the same output soundcarrd as pulse works with successfully, and selecting the Motif XS8 as midi input, nothing happens.
I dont know where to even begin with this.
I moved to MX18 which is a well supported/ probably best supported Debian distro.
Pulseaudio is working great running all my remote devices such as tablets and all bluetooth audio and does my audio libraries well.
I have a lot of remaining questions though.
This post will only deal with getting MIDI working on MX18 (Debian Stretch).
I have decvices that are recognised but some applications dont see them.
The problem is seemingly with the humungously vague alsa/jack engine. Nobody I speak to knows of any cohesive procedure or manual to deal with the jack behemoth and all its idiosyncrasies.
1) The first question would be to ask for help about how to understand the midi system in Linux and how I can get to a stage that I can route midi optimally and LOGICALLY rather than to rely on heresay. There is no cohesive documentation addressing MIDI for Linux I could find. All just hand waving and trophy reports of no value.
How should I go about to get for example,
My motif XS8 keyboard to connect with midi to an internal synth or some application or software keyboard that will play voices off the Motif XS8? That way I can start building up some route of working pathways through the jack/alsa nightmare.
At the moment the Motif XS8 keyboard shows up as a midi device in vmpk, but selecting the same output soundcarrd as pulse works with successfully, and selecting the Motif XS8 as midi input, nothing happens.
I dont know where to even begin with this.