<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Ok, so what's the drill for a linux dumbo who wants to do use ardour 3 + midi, like me?</span></div><div><span>Is there a more suitable distro you could suggest?<br></span></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> Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.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> Tim Westbrook <iondiode@yahoo.com>; "ardour-users@lists.ardour.org" <ardour-users@lists.ardour.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 30
September 2011, 12:27<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Users] Fw: can't get midi to work<br></font><br>On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Nick Ramm <<a ymailto="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk">seeyoushortly@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> thanks for your reply Tim!<br>> Yes, i tried this and got the error message "Cannot create jack client"<br>> Actually, When i boot up Ardour3alpha10 it warns me that my version of jack<br>> is old.<br>> I'm running Lynx64 and i think the version of jack i have is<br>> 0.118+szn3796-ubuntu2<br>> On synaptic is says this is the latest release..<br><br>just for some context: JACK 0.118 was released on 2009-11-16 09:36<br><br>that's not far off 2 years ago. A distribution that can't update a<br>package (that has almost no hard dependencies) during 2 years? no<br>comment.<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>