[Ardour-Users] can I run FFADO for audio and alsa MIDI devices under jack?

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Fri Mar 27  0:32 , Paul Davis  sent:

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>On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, allan k <sonofzev at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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>Hi All
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>Just as written above. I have just bought a Saffire Pro 10 i/o so I can
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>use it both with my PC (linux) and my  Mac Powerbook (older PPC).. but
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>am considering moving across to a laptop platform (as my external
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>sequencer is dying)... I also have a very extensive MIDI setup with a
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>couple of controllers and numerous devices hanging off 2 emagic AMT
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>8's.
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>I can see that the ALSA midi devices exist but they don't become jack
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>MIDI devices in this configuration, even with the MIDI on the Saffire
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>Pro turned off. This is using jack svn both versions (1.x and 2.x,
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>although latency performance on 2.x is superior).  I'm sure this must be
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>possible as there must be numerous people with USB control devices and
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>firewire audio.
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>So, is this possible with jack if so how do it do it?
>at this particular point in time, you can't do this with *just* the JACK server.
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>what you can do right now is to run a separate client, "a2jmidi" which will
"bridge" between the ALSA sequencer and JACK MIDI "worlds".
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Excellent, I'll try that tonight. Thanks very much.... 

cheers

Allan