Hi everybody,
I was wondering if anybody has used the Yamaha UD-BT01 Wireless Midi Adapter (Bluetooth v4.0 MIDI) with Linux. I was wondering how you could get the MIDI data to get recognized by Pd.
Does anybody have any experience or know how to use it? I would like to use it with either Debian or Raspbian (or both).
Ingo
On Sep 04, Ingo wrote:
Hi everybody,
I was wondering if anybody has used the Yamaha UD-BT01 Wireless Midi Adapter (Bluetooth v4.0 MIDI) with Linux. I was wondering how you could get the MIDI data to get recognized by Pd.
Does anybody have any experience or know how to use it? I would like to use it with either Debian or Raspbian (or both).
Ingo
I haven't used that particularl midi adapter, but I use a USB MIDI footswitch a lot with my stuff and I run Xubuntu. I use it with this program a2jmidid which is at least in the Ubuntu repos, I think it's supposed to bridge ALSA MIDI and Jack MIDI. Anyways, I then open up a ALSA MIDI channel or two in Pd. I then connect the two graphically via Jack using that nifty qjackctl program.
So to sum up: Logidy footswitch -> a2jmidid -> JACK (qjackctl) -> Pd via ALSA.
There prob is a way easier way to do it (mb I can get that footswitch in directly to Pd via ALSA MIDI?) but I've found it to be reliable and rock-solid in performance. Maybe you could follow a similar pattern with your wireless MIDI adapter.
Derek
Thanks Derek,
I'll take a look at it. I'm neither using jack nor alsa midi atm so I'll have to check out how I would use this.
Ingo
-----Original Message----- From: Derek Kwan [mailto:derek.x.kwan@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 11:49 AM To: Ingo Cc: pd-list@lists.iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] Yamaha UD-BT01 Wireless Midi Adapter (Bluetooth MIDI) with Linux
On Sep 04, Ingo wrote:
Hi everybody,
I was wondering if anybody has used the Yamaha UD-BT01 Wireless Midi Adapter (Bluetooth v4.0 MIDI) with Linux. I was wondering how you could get the MIDI data to get recognized by Pd.
Does anybody have any experience or know how to use it? I would like to use it with either Debian or Raspbian (or both).
Ingo
I haven't used that particularl midi adapter, but I use a USB MIDI
footswitch a
lot with my stuff and I run Xubuntu. I use it with this program a2jmidid
which
is at least in the Ubuntu repos, I think it's supposed to bridge ALSA MIDI
and
Jack MIDI. Anyways, I then open up a ALSA MIDI channel or two in Pd. I
then
connect the two graphically via Jack using that nifty qjackctl program.
So to sum up: Logidy footswitch -> a2jmidid -> JACK (qjackctl) -> Pd via ALSA.
There prob is a way easier way to do it (mb I can get that footswitch in directly to Pd via ALSA MIDI?) but I've found it to be reliable and
rock-solid in
performance. Maybe you could follow a similar pattern with your wireless MIDI adapter.
Derek
On 2016-09-12 11:49, Derek Kwan wrote:
I use it with this program a2jmidid which is at least in the Ubuntu repos, I think it's supposed to bridge ALSA MIDI and Jack MIDI. Anyways, I then open up a ALSA MIDI channel or two in Pd. I then connect the two graphically via Jack using that nifty qjackctl program.
ahm, are you sure? does the device only have jack midi drivers? (i always thought that jack midi builds on top of alsa midi).
because if the device has alsa midi drivers, you can use the nifty qjackctl program to connect the two alsa midi devices directly (the "ALSA" tab should really read "ALSA MIDI", and the "MIDI" tab should read "JACK MIDI"), without needing a software proxy (a2jmidid)
fgamsdr IOhannes
On Sep 12, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2016-09-12 11:49, Derek Kwan wrote:
I use it with this program a2jmidid which is at least in the Ubuntu repos, I think it's supposed to bridge ALSA MIDI and Jack MIDI. Anyways, I then open up a ALSA MIDI channel or two in Pd. I then connect the two graphically via Jack using that nifty qjackctl program.
ahm, are you sure? does the device only have jack midi drivers? (i always thought that jack midi builds on top of alsa midi).
because if the device has alsa midi drivers, you can use the nifty qjackctl program to connect the two alsa midi devices directly (the "ALSA" tab should really read "ALSA MIDI", and the "MIDI" tab should read "JACK MIDI"), without needing a software proxy (a2jmidid)
fgamsdr IOhannes
Oh, haha, so there is an ALSA tab and it works that way. I don't know why I haven't noticed that before... I guess I figured out my way back when I first switched to Linux a year and a half ago and it worked so I didn't look back. Yeah, I suppose labelling the tabs MIDI and ALSA aren't the most intuitive things in the world, esp since most of the time you see ALSA you're dealing with soundcards so that tab is easily skip-over-able. This simplifies things a bit, thanks man!
So to sum up for the list graphically, this better way is:
USB MIDI controller -> qjackctl (Connect -> ALSA tab) -> Pd (ALSA-MIDI)
Derek