Re: midish and virtual alsa midi ports

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:03:04PM +0200, gorest wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Working config :
> midish > alsa midi through 14:0 > a2jmidid > qjackmmc
> here jack transport is responding to MMC messages
> 	rmidish
> 	dnew 2 "14:0" wo
> 	dmmctx {2}
> 	import "mymidifile.mid"
> 	t 86
> 	p
> 
> Not working config
> midish > alsa virtual midi ports 20:0 > a2jmidid > qjackmmc
> 	rmidish
> 	dnew 3 "20:0" wo
> 	dmmctx {3}
> 	import "mymidifile.mid"
> 	t 86
> 	p
> now jack transport is not responding
> 
> did you already tried with those alsa virtual midi ports ? should
> they work as is in midish ?

Hi,

midish doesn't make the difference between different types of midi
ports, so virtual midi ports are not special and should work as
others.

Does your setup requires connecting ports? IIRC, virtual midi ports
used to need tweaks with aconnect utility

-- Alexandre