[ardour-users] Ardour & BCF2000 USB control surface

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 27 December 2005 at 0:38, Jesse Chappell <jesse at essej.net> wrote:

> On 12/26/05, Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:11:12 -0700
> > Steve D <groups at xscd.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So, powering-up and attaching the BCF2000 before launching Ardour does
> > > not seem to work (Ardour is unresponsive to the control-button2click
> > > MIDI controller assignment, and qjackctl refuses to allow the
> > > connection), but launching Ardour first, and then turning on and
> > > plugging in the BCF2000 seems to work fine.
> >
> > This happens to me, too, using any version of ardour or qjackctl on a
> > Planet CCRMA (RH9-based) machine.  Power-cycling the BCF fixes the problem.
> 
> I believe this might have something to do with ardour itself capturing
> the raw midi device in some way that prevents alsaseq from using it. 
> Look in your ~/.ardour/ardour.rc near the top and remove the other
> <MIDI-port ... > lines where the type *isn't*  "alsa/sequencer". 

But, what's a person to do if the type is "alsa/raw" and there is 
actually a soundcard's MIDI port associated with it?  That would be 
my case, in the event I buy a BCF2000 someday -- they seem very cool.

Thanks...
 
--
Kevin