JACK and MIDI output

[average_snail]

Hello all,

I am very new to JACK and fairly new to LMMS, so there are some things I haven't figured out yet. I've spent a few hours trying to get my Edirol FA-101 connected over FireWire to work with MIDI.

I have a synth and a keyboard connected to the MIDI ports of the Edirol. MIDI input works without a problem, but I'm having problems with MIDI output.

When I start LMMS, I only get a MIDI in port in qjackctl, as per the screenshot below (connection missing, just for illustration):



But when I start Ardour, I get both an input and an output port:



I'm guessing I should get an output port for LMMS and route that to firewire_pcm. There aren't really any settings to speak of in the settings dialog for MIDI (edit: At least for JACK), maybe I've missed something.

I am running version 1.2.0 on Gentoo 17.0, JACK2 version 1.9.12.

Thankful for any help or pointers!

[musikbear]

Hello all,

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I'm having problems with MIDI output.

Afaik MIDI-signals to peripheral hardware is not supported (yet). LMMS can receive pressed MIDI-notes from a MIDI-kb, and play the note pressed on the MIDI-kb, with the instrument, that has been connected to MIDI, but only that.
LMMS also do not support launch-pads (yet..)

[average_snail]

If MIDI out does not work at all, that would explain it. Though I've seen people here and there saying they have done MIDI out, for example here, so I thought it might be an issue specifically with MIDI through JACK.

What is a launch-pad in this context?

[average_snail]

Took my time and had a peek in the source code. It looked like there were code there for MIDI output through JACK, but suddenly a wild comment appeared:

Code: Select all

jack midi out not implemented

So that sucks. I guess I'll have to get a USB MIDI interface or try and kludge something together,

Thanks anyway!