Jack Midi Ports.
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:29 pm
Ok, a new challenge has popped up in the wonderful world of LSampler Development.
As has been fairly widely known among the linux Reaper users, i've been thrilled with a multi midi port setup, through Wineasio into Reaper.
No longer limited by software restrictions, Alsa midi ports in Jack were numerous, and enable me to port out from Reaper, through Wine, into Linuxsampler, for up to 32 ports. Excellent.
Now i have a challenge. Since the advent of Jack midi defaults in LS, and i'm a big fan of this, the downside is, Reaper can no longer see multiple wine alsa midi ports, but just 1 jack midi port. Understandably, this will have a fairly significant impact on my 216channel, 18 midi port (so far) linuxsampler orchestral template, as i'll no longer be able to assign and switch ports with ease. I've gone from 18, to 1.
Now all is not entirely lost, as i can use a 'link' utility, called alsa2jackmidi to link at least 1 alsa midi port, to 1 jack midi port in qjackctl.
Is there any way i can configure a2j to see more than one port? Or is there anyway i can use more than one jack midi port through wine into Reaper?
Any help with this would be appreciated!
Alex.
As has been fairly widely known among the linux Reaper users, i've been thrilled with a multi midi port setup, through Wineasio into Reaper.
No longer limited by software restrictions, Alsa midi ports in Jack were numerous, and enable me to port out from Reaper, through Wine, into Linuxsampler, for up to 32 ports. Excellent.
Now i have a challenge. Since the advent of Jack midi defaults in LS, and i'm a big fan of this, the downside is, Reaper can no longer see multiple wine alsa midi ports, but just 1 jack midi port. Understandably, this will have a fairly significant impact on my 216channel, 18 midi port (so far) linuxsampler orchestral template, as i'll no longer be able to assign and switch ports with ease. I've gone from 18, to 1.
Now all is not entirely lost, as i can use a 'link' utility, called alsa2jackmidi to link at least 1 alsa midi port, to 1 jack midi port in qjackctl.
Is there any way i can configure a2j to see more than one port? Or is there anyway i can use more than one jack midi port through wine into Reaper?
Any help with this would be appreciated!
Alex.