<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>Thanks for this Jim, will save me a precious few seconds when starting up a2jmidid after jack!<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px">Message: 2 <br>Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 10:12:57 -0400 <br>From: Jim Priest <<a subj="" mailid="priest%40thecrumb.com" href="mailto:priest@thecrumb.com" target="_blank">priest@thecrumb.com</a>> <br>To: "<a subj="" mailid="jonetsu%40teksavvy.com" href="mailto:jonetsu@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">jonetsu@teksavvy.com</a>" <<a subj="" mailid="jonetsu%40teksavvy.com" href="mailto:jonetsu@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">jonetsu@teksavvy.com</a>> <br>Cc: <a subj="" mailid="ardour-users%40lists.ardour.org" href="mailto:ardour-users@lists.ardour.org" target="_blank">ardour-users@lists.ardour.org</a> <br>Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] Ardour and Axiom 25 <br>Message-ID: <br> <CALs4P+e93+JJ2Opxzj5v<a subj="" mailid="6B_7K1i7-T8v-iu3ML1faq0oft-ZSw%40mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:6B_7K1i7-T8v-iu3ML1faq0oft-ZSw@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">6B_7K1i7-T8v-iu3ML1faq0oft-ZSw@mail.gmail.com</a>> <br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" <br> <br>I just went through this with my AkaiMPK 25 and Paul helped me with this <br>link: <br><a href="http://www.manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/setting-up-midi/midi-on-linux/" target="_blank">http://www.manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/setting-up-midi/midi-on-linux/</a> <br> <br>Big thing was enabling a2jmidid within QJackCTL. <br> <br>Simply adding a2jmidid -e to the startup didn't work for me - someone on <br>IRC helped me with a script. <br> <br>startup.sh <br># force a2jmidid to sleep a bit before qjackctl tries <br># to start it the trailing & forces a2jmidid into <br># the background so a console window isn't open <br># sleep 3s && a2jmidid -e & <br> <br>Then in my QJackCTL - execute script after startup I have <br>'/home/jim/Audio/scripts/startup.sh' <br>And in On Shutdown I have 'killall a2jmidid' <br> <br>Once I did that I was able to map sliders/knobs to Ardour controls. <br> <br>And I think there is a map available for the Axiom already: <br><a href="https://community.ardour.org/ardour_midi_binding_maps" target="_blank">https://community.ardour.org/ardour_midi_binding_maps</a> <br> <br>Good luck! It's pretty nice once you get it working! <br>Jim<br></blockquote></div></body></html>