[PD] problem with MIDI (linux)

[Justin Glenn Smith]

chi ball wrote:
>>>
>>>> When you send MIDI into pd, what do you expect to happen?
>>>
>>>> MIDI coming into pd will not make any sound, it will provide messages to
>>>> control things that make sound, if you build them or load them.
>>> In "testtone" there is a midi test.......a little patch.. ;)
>> I am familiar with the testtone patch, but the word 'mute' threw me off,
>> because MIDI does not cause sound to occur in the testtone patch. Which
>> MIDI api are you using?
> 
> I don't know..
> 
> Excuse me for my english..mute means that if I make a simple patch to
> produce a midi note with a metro.. (I'm familiar with algorithmic music
> in pd, but in windows..)  I can't listen anything.
>  		 	   		  

Audio and MIDI should be separate here. I recommend using jack, and for that
to work you need jack running as the same user that is running pd, and make
sure that the pd output is connected to your sound card (this is easy to do
with qjackctl). See if other programs can make sound with jack. For AlSA
sound, make sure that no other program is hogging the sound card and
preventing pd from using it. For MIDI, use ALSA MIDI, and you can manage
MIDI connections also in qjackctl, under the connections-alsa tab.