[PD] time travelling with AKM320 and Pd

Jaime Oliver jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 06:24:49 CEST 2016


I can confirm that is still the caseā€¦
J
> On Apr 21, 2016, at 12:11 AM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> So... last time I used 'alsa midi' I think It worked to start up Pd with
> -alsamidi, then use aconnect to make Pd's input listen to whatever source
> aconnect will allow it to be connected to.
> 
> But that was years ago... I'm happy to say I don't have to use MIDI very
> frequently.
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 04:04:19AM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> BTW-- On OSX I get the correct device string "AKM320", and when I set 
>> that device everything looks to be working correctly there.  I only tested 
>> with the GUI port of Pd-l2ork, but I'd assume Pd Vanilla also works there.
>> 
>> -Jonathan
>> 
>> 
>>    On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> qjackctl has three tabs: Audio, Midi, and ALSA.  The device shows up in the 
>> ALSA tab.
>> lmms has a drop down list for midi in and midi out.  It shows up on those lists, 
>> I can select it, and then I'm off making sounds.  And that is using ALSA as the 
>> backend, so I know this can be done.
>> 
>> aconnect -o sees it:client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
>>     0 'Timer           '
>>     1 'Announce        '
>> client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
>>     0 'Midi Through Port-0'
>> client 20: 'AKM320' [type=kernel]
>>     0 'AKM320 MIDI 1   '
>> 
>> Neither Pd nor Pd-l2ork see it or list it with --listdev.
>> I can symlink /dev/snd/midiwhatevs to /dev/midi and it will get 
>> found and work in pd-0.46-7 (but not in Pd-l2ork-- maybe something 
>> with the 0.43 changes? not sure).  But that requires 
>> me to go buy clothes from 2005 off of ebay.  I don't want to do that, 
>> I want *AKM320* to show up in a dropdown list in Pd. 
>> -Jonathan
>>    On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:14 PM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> A fun challenge....
>> 
>> Does anything see it?  (In particular, does the qjackctl MIDI patch bay see it?)
>> Not that that's scientific, but that's the way I check around for whether the
>> so-called ALSA MIDI driver can find it.
>> 
>> cheers
>> Miller
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:08:29AM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
>>> Hi list,I got a little AKM320 usb midi keyboard for $40.  Hooked it up, fired up 
>>> Pd, and we're back to 2005:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general/14675
>>> Just change UM-1 to AKM320 and you have my error report.  Well, aside 
>>> from the fact that my laptop doesn't have a modem on it (though I bet if it 
>>> did it'd show up in Pd's audio device list...)
>>> Any clue what's going on here, and how to fix Pd to do the right thing _without_ 
>>> touching any of the state on my machine (save for the Pd binary, of course)?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,Jonathan
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