HELP! Understanding MIDI

[Hartmut Noack]

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Thomas Fisher schrieb:
> The equipment is:
>   -Edirol UM-1 ex   USB
>   -Kawai KC-10 keyboard
> 
> The software is:
>  -Jack
>  -Rosegarden
>  -Patchage
>  -ZynaddSubfx
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> HELP!
>   I am stumbling through this midi hookup, which is becoming frustratingly 
> obvious to me that I am not comprehending a something about this MIDI hookup. 
> I know that it can work in that I accidentally had it all working, once, but 
> can't get it working again.  The deeper I get into some of the guides, the 
> more lost I become.
> Anyone with a straightforward suggestion?

Let us try it:

give jackd/rt is running sufficiently the next stepps should be:

1: connect the edirol and start it with jack
2: connect the kawai and have a look at
qjackctl/connections/MIDI/AlsaMIDI. You may as well use patchage for
that, it is more or less the same as the connection-tab of qjackctl.
3:start zynadd and look, that its output goes to the edirols input in
qjackctl, its MIDI-ports show up in the AlsaMIDI-tab
4:start rosegarden and do a rightklick at the head of the first track
choose "General MIDI device" and hev a look to the area left of the editor.
5: there should be a section named "recording-filter" look, if you can
set device and channel here, now go to the MIDI-panel of qjackctl again
6: if the kawai is listed here as an individual device connect its
MIDI-out to Rosegarden record_in, if not, try MIDI-through of the Edirol

7:arm the track mentioned before for recording and chack, if zyn answers
your keystrokes. If so, you can begin your recording right now, if not,
connect the kawai-out to zynadds in first, only then fiddle with the
"recording-filter"-settings of rg.

You may also have a look at "Manage Midi-devices" in rg's "Studio"-menu.

good luck ;-)

>  
>  Thanks
> Tom
> 
> 

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