[ubuntu-studio-users] About some midibridge naming issues

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi Roy,

I'm going to assume you're running 24.04. If you're not, you should 
upgrade as soon as possible because PipeWire under 22.04 is not supported.

With PipeWire, you shouldn't have to run a2jmidid at all anymore; it 
should all "just work". Gone are the times where you have to fiddle with 
the command line.

As far as getting things to auto-connect, use RaySession and it will 
"automagically" make things re-connect as it somehow remembers MIDI 
connections for you. I'm not sure how, but it might remember the device 
MAC itself or something, but I'm purely speculating here. It's installed 
by default. Yes, it's a session manager, and it treats PipeWire 
connections as JACK connections.

Give that a shot. Works for me and manages to reconnect my MIDI 
controller every time I power it off/on or even completely disconnect 
it. Even this morning, I started RaySession and Ardour and had 
everything disconnected. Connected everything, powered-on everything, 
and it all connected right where it was supposed to.

Give it a shot!
Erich

On 9/24/24 07:43, Roy Damen wrote:
> Dear Team UbuntuStudio,
>
> Is there perhaps something to be done to get the midi device naming 
> stable? It's like every time my setup starts again the naming is 
> different so it won't auto connect. Maybe make several connections for 
> the same but the patchbay is large enough already.
> I ask this because i read up on all of pipewire and we made music with 
> it last week. But i was still running a2jmidid -e -u.
> Maybe i should just wait to development to come by, but i hope it 
> possible as is.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Roy Damen
>