[ardour-users] midi controller problems

[gerard van dongen]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:34:40 +0100, derek holzer <derek at x-i.net> wrote:

> OK, I worked it out. It's an old problem which I forgot about: Pure Data  
> hogs the raw MIDI input. So no Ardour + PD with MIDI.
>
> There isn't a way to get Ardour to use the Virtual Raw MIDI channels? I  
> can't get it to respond at all to these.
>


Hi Derek
That should be possible if you define them in your ardour.rc  
(/dev/snd/midiCxDy where x and y depends on your alsa configuration, x is  
the "card" number  and y is the port on the virtual midi card)
Note:
You can use ctrl-middle-click to set up binding


Gerard

PS
If ardour crashes when trying to use the alsa sequencer you should report  
it on ardour-dev and file a mantis bug report.


> d.
>
> derek holzer wrote:
>> Hi gang, for the last few versions, I have been unable to get an  
>> external MIDI controller mapped. I removed all the MIDI devices from my  
>> /etc/ardour/ardour.rc and ~/.ardour/ardour.rc. leaving only this:
>>    <MIDI-port tag="seq" device="ardour" type="alsa/sequencer"  
>> mode="duplex"/>
>>  because Ardour would crash when I tried to connect up any MIDI in  
>> Qjackctl otherwise.
>>  Now I can connect the raw MIDI from my soundcard to "seq" without  
>> Ardour crashing, but I still don't have the "middle click gives you  
>> MIDI mapping". Is it possible there is something else in my ardour.rc  
>> that needs changing for this to work? [ardour.rc attached]
>>  thanks mucho,
>> d.
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