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

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 15 May 2007 at 12:13, "Jesse Chappell" <jesse at essej.net> wrote:

> 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,

Mandriva 2007.0, 2.6.17-13mdv #1 SMP Fri Mar 23 13:07:21 MDT 2007
i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ GNU/Linux

> make sure that the snd_seq alsa kernel module is loaded

lsmod | grep snd_seq

snd_seq_midi            7264  0 
snd_seq_dummy           3620  0 
snd_seq_oss            31392  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7072  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49488  6 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi            19936  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device          7212  5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              19620  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    46500  22 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ice1712,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer


So far so good I think...


--
Kevin