So... last time I used 'alsa midi' I think It worked to start up Pd with -alsamidi, then use aconnect to make Pd's input listen to whatever source aconnect will allow it to be connected to.
But that was years ago... I'm happy to say I don't have to use MIDI very frequently.
cheers Miller
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 04:04:19AM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
BTW-- On OSX I get the correct device string "AKM320", and when I set that device everything looks to be working correctly there. I only tested with the GUI port of Pd-l2ork, but I'd assume Pd Vanilla also works there.
-Jonathan
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <pd-list@lists.iem.at> wrote:qjackctl has three tabs: Audio, Midi, and ALSA. The device shows up in the ALSA tab. lmms has a drop down list for midi in and midi out. It shows up on those lists, I can select it, and then I'm off making sounds. And that is using ALSA as the backend, so I know this can be done.
aconnect -o sees it:client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]    0 'Timer          '    1 'Announce       ' client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]    0 'Midi Through Port-0' client 20: 'AKM320' [type=kernel]    0 'AKM320 MIDI 1  '
Neither Pd nor Pd-l2ork see it or list it with --listdev. I can symlink /dev/snd/midiwhatevs to /dev/midi and it will get found and work in pd-0.46-7 (but not in Pd-l2ork-- maybe something with the 0.43 changes? not sure). But that requires me to go buy clothes from 2005 off of ebay. I don't want to do that, I want *AKM320* to show up in a dropdown list in Pd. -Jonathan On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:14 PM, Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu wrote:
A fun challenge....
Does anything see it? (In particular, does the qjackctl MIDI patch bay see it?) Not that that's scientific, but that's the way I check around for whether the so-called ALSA MIDI driver can find it.
cheers Miller
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:08:29AM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
Hi list,I got a little AKM320 usb midi keyboard for $40. Hooked it up, fired up Pd, and we're back to 2005:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general/14675 Just change UM-1 to AKM320 and you have my error report. Well, aside from the fact that my laptop doesn't have a modem on it (though I bet if it did it'd show up in Pd's audio device list...) Any clue what's going on here, and how to fix Pd to do the right thing _without_ touching any of the state on my machine (save for the Pd binary, of course)?
Thanks,Jonathan
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