firepod midi support

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:11 +0100, martin wrote:
> > Am 01.12.2010 00:51, schrieb Ronan Jouchet:
> > > I think it should.
> > > What does the MIDI tab of qjackctl report?
> > >
> > > Ronan
> > >
> > > On 10-11-30 06:35 PM, mentoj dija wrote:
> > >    
> > >> so thank you guys for your help to start my firepod running. a brilliant
> > >> device. there is only one futher question: does the midi-interface built
> > >> in the pod work out of the box? well, it doesn't in my case... what do?
> > >>
> > >> cheers
> > >>
> > >>      
> > >    
> > ah, sry. i forgot. yea, there is no device listet in the midi-tab. which 
> > is strange, because i just got another cheap midi-usb-interface which 
> > worked out of the box with linux (not with windows xp, but thats another 
> > storry).
> 
> 
> USB and MIDI are a no-go! USB MIDInterfaces do work with Linux and they
> should work with Windows too, but you should notice unbearable jitter.
> On Linux you should enable the high resolution timer, when using an USB
> interface.

PS:

Oops, JACK MIDI vs ALSA MIDI, of course there's no MIDI device listed as
a JACK MIDI device ;).