[ardour-users] Ardour 2.0 and BCF2000 (MCU)

[Jesse Chappell]

On 5/15/07, Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc at doink.com> wrote:
>
> On 1 May 2007 at 7:04, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 12:30 +0200, Thomas Desbarats wrote:
> > > I'm using Ardour 2.0 beta and rc for a while and I have to say that
> > > MCU mode changed my life. My point is, since the 2.0rc2 I c'ant use
> > > the MCU (with a BCF2000).
> >
> > the default port name "mcu" is now an ALSA sequencer port and will need
> > to be explicitly connected to the hardware port where your BCF2000 is
> > plugged in. you can use qjackctl's MIDI tab in its connect dialog to do
> > this.
>
> The recent chatter about the BCF2000 (my new one is in a box ready to
> hook up to ardour 2.0.2) got me thinking about this again.  I just
> fired up qjackctl and found that my MIDI tab is all grayed out. Is
> this the right place to ask why that is or how to fix it?

Assuming you are on linux, make sure that the snd_seq alsa kernel
module is loaded.

jlc