Bug#491963: Clarification needed

[David Baron]

On Sunday 29 March 2009 14:39:59 Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure if I understand this correctly, but shouldn't alsa-seq and
> jack-whatever be two completely different things?
>
> The alsa MIDI ports should show up under "ALSA" in qjackctl, whereas
> jack-midi is put into "MIDI".
>
> So running jackd should not prevent qsynth from accessing alsa-seq MIDI
> ports.
>
> If you need to bridge between jack-midi and ALSA-midi, there's a2jmidid:
>
>    http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/
>
> Can you clarify what's wrong?

It has been a long while since I played with this. If I remember correctly, 
using the -x option in jackd was problematic. I think I was able to use 
a2jmidid instead but I do not remember. The program worked without jack (but 
without the advantages of jack).