<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>thanks for your reply Tim!<br></span></div><div><span>Yes, i tried this and got the error message "Cannot create jack client"</span></div><div><span>Actually, When i boot up Ardour3alpha10 it warns me that my version of jack is old.</span></div><div><span>I'm running Lynx64 and i think the version of jack i have is 0.118+szn3796-ubuntu2<br></span></div><div>On synaptic is says this is the latest release..</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nick<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tim Westbrook <iondiode@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
 bold;">To:</span></b> Nick Ramm <seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "ardour-users@lists.ardour.org" <ardour-users@lists.ardour.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 30 September 2011, 0:09<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Users] Fw: can't get midi to work<br></font><br><div id="yiv1983005338"><br><br><div class="yiv1983005338gmail_quote">On 30 September 2011 11:49, Nick Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk">seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1983005338gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2">----- Forwarded Message -----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Nick Ramm <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk">seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Davis <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 September 2011, 23:48<br>
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<div><span>Hi,  I still have no success connecting my midi keyboard via the midi sockets on the back of my audiophile 2496 to ardour.</span></div><div><span>When i run ardour and look inside Jack connections/MIDI tab, there is only ardour ins and outs available with nothing to connect them too.</span></div>
<div><span>Should my keyboard appear as something in JACK..<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Any suggestions?</span></div><div><span><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br>Did you you try running a2jmidi? as paul suggested? (it needs to be running while ardour is running)<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="yiv1983005338gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span></span></div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><div><span>Nick<font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><div class="yiv1983005338hm"><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="yiv1983005338hm"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Davis
 <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Nick Ramm <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk">seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ardour-users@lists.ardour.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:ardour-users@lists.ardour.org">ardour-users@lists.ardour.org</a><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 1 May 2011, 23:33<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Users] can't get midi to work<br></font></div><div><div></div><div class="yiv1983005338h5"><br><div><div><div><br>use a2jmidid with the -e option. all ALSA MIDI ports (h/w and software) will appear in JACK and the timing (latency+jitter) will be excellent.<br>
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