Fedora :: USB / MIDI Keyboard - Cannot Get Jack To Start?
Jun 14, 2011
I am a simple musician who bought a laptop that didn't have windows, nor can I afford a Windows license (being a proper poor musician and all). I have an M-Audio KeyRig 49 midi controller that I would like to get some sound out of. How might I do this? I have jack, qjackctl, qsynth, et al but forget qsynth... I can't even get jack to start! I just need to hook this thing up to a piano sample and I'll be happy as anything. I understand that system information can be useful so here goes: Running F14... here are the jack messages (btw, ctrl C does not work when trying to copy from the jack messages window, despite the contextual menu saying it should. That sucks. where do I submit a bug?)
01:51:22.730 Patchbay deactivated.
01:51:22.745 Statistics reset.
01:51:22.799 ALSA connection change.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
01:51:22.811 ALSA connection graph change.
01:51:24.191 JACK is starting...
01:51:24.192 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 -Xseq
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket .....
I have already seen the Fedora Musician's Guide [URL] which is long on theory but short on practical how-to documentation. Is there a better doc I can look at? Do I need to download some special drivers to get this midi interface working? If I plug this thing in to my friend's Mac and run GarageBand, it 'just works' (though GB's piano samples are fairly horrific considering how expensive macs are.) I already own some decent soundfonts but without working jack it seems they aren't much use.
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May 21, 2010
Question moved to the Studio area as I didn't know about it!
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Oct 16, 2010
I'm new to ubuntu but i do have a basic understanding of programming, but nothing too serious. The reason I am mentioning this is because I have a little project. Currently I use JACK to control the transport of all the aps i use to make music with ardour, hydrogen and rosegarden mainly. I also have an external midi drum machine that I sometimes hook up into the mix via midi in/out, my drum machine (yamaha ry to be exact can send and receive midi data. My question is can I use the transport controls on my external drum machine to control JACK's transport controls? If there is already am app that does something like that, excellent!
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Jul 23, 2010
I installed ardour on my F11 box, and both jack1 (0.xx, in /usr/bin) and jack2( 1.9.5, in /usr/local/bin/). Now when I try to start ardour, it balks about being unable to start jack. On the ardour settings page, I tried changing the JACK server path field from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin, to no avail.
On the cmdline, here's what I get when I run, manually jack1 and jack2:
JACK1:
[root@localhost yati]# /usr/bin/jackd
jackd 0.118.0
Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others.
jackd comes with absolutely No Warranty
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file copying for details .....
That prompts me to think that JACK1 is fine... but still ardour won't start up.
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Dec 30, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with the Kubuntu desktop environment. I'm trying to use my MIDI keyboard through ALSA, Linuxsampler and Qsampler. But I still haven't got a sound out of it, and I fear that the information about the existence of the keyboard doesn't get through. That, or I don't know how to configure properly.
In sndstat, both my sound card (Guitar Rig) and my keyboard (Hua Xing) is showing up:
Quote:
cerapter@Ancalagon:~$ cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.21 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux Ancalagon 2.6.32-26-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:14:11 UTC 2010 x86_64
Config options: 0
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Mar 31, 2010
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attempting to start Jack using the qjackctl frontend...code...
then Jack stops... how do i start Jack successfully?
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I am building a midi synthesizer that I'd like to be able to control from linux. I know its a rather broad question, but, how do I go about this? At this point the hardware consists of a simple UART bridge, and I've already written a simple C++ program using termios to send the raw midi data to the device. Obviously I don't want to write a player/sequencer from scratch, so where should I start if I wanted to get this thing to work with, say, a sequencer like rosegarden? Do I write the driver for rosegarden, or hook into alsa or what?
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I am not able to start JACK in realtime mode. This is a bummer. here is the error message I get:
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } 11:58:20.745 Patchbay deactivated.
11:58:20.746 Statistics reset.
11:58:20.812 ALSA connection graph change.
[code]...
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I installed the libffado from Slackbuilds.org yesterday on my -current box, and followed the instructions in the README for configuration. After I did that jack wouldn't start at all, insisting that there were no recognized drivers, even when I had the alsa driver selected (alsa is working fine, by the way... I have sound). After doing some more research I uninstalled jack and built Jack2 (1.9.6) from source with the following configure options:
Code:
./waf configure --firewire --alsa --dbus --enable-pkg-config-dbus-service-dir
Now when I try to launch jack (regardless of selected driver) I get the following message
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I'm trying to run this on a Dell Mini 10v netbook.
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code:
gst-launch audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! jackaudiosink
in the console. i just don't know what to do next.
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Code:
15:11:41.006 Patchbay deactivated.
15:11:41.008 Statistics reset.
15:11:41.024 ALSA connection graph change.
15:11:41.240 ALSA connection change.
15:11:42.091 Startup script...
15:11:42.091 artsshell -q terminate
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15:11:42.533 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
15:11:42.538 JACK was started with PID=4302.
*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/bin/jackd terminated .....
15:11:42.589 JACK has crashed.
jackd: no process killed
15:11:43.015 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.
15:11:44.683 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info.
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Jan 18, 2010
I have used Linux off & on over the past 8-10 years, and last fall went full hog (no windows partition left!) on my IBM/Lenovo T61P (model 6457-B51) and am currently running Fedora 12 64-bit. It's been SOLID since last October. I did bail to the NVIDIA driver and the video performance is fantastic as well for my work usage of this system.
I have sound through the internal speakers and also through USB headsets, so it appears that pulseaudio, hated as it is, is working fine on this hardware. However, I CANNOT get any sound through the speaker jack! I get a hum anytime I attempt to use speakers connected to that jack - I have not tried a microphone on the mic jack, so I cannot speak to whether that works or not. This came to a head when I tried to play an audio file during a class and could not get the sound into the room speakers.
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/sbin/lspci:
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