Support for aj2midid in QjackCtl

Hi Rui

Is there a possibility to add support for aj2midid in QjackCtl? It's a neat little command line tool for showing up hardware-midi-keyboards as jack-midi connections.

I tried putting 'a2jmidid -e' as a command to start after jackd in QjackCtl's set-up optionsl but QjackCtl hangs as the a2jmidid thread stays open until it receives a control-c to stop the bridge.

Perhaps you have a better idea.

Best regards, Simon

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rncbc's picture

Re: Support for aj2midid in QjackCtl

missing a trailing ampersand ?

a2jmidid -e &

you need it, if you reaaly want to run the program in the background, otherwise qjackctl will just hang waiting for it to finish.

cheers

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aj2midid

Hi Rui

The ampersand trick is perfect.

A need a second trick to stop the a2jmidid bridge when I hit stop on QjackCtl's control panel - any Ideas?

Best regards, Simon

rncbc's picture

killall a2jmidid

hth

I'd like to do this!

Hello Simon, Rui, I'd love to do this, but I have no expertise in programming, how difficult would it be to make this modifications? Or could you send me a copy of the code I need to modify? If it's not much trouble for you of course.

thanks very much

rncbc's picture

Re: I'd like to do this!

@maghoxfr

What exactly would you like to do?

Simon asked to run `a2jmidid &` as a post-startup script and I suggested `killall a2jmidid` as a pre-shutdown script. These are options under Setup.../Options/Scripting, while on QjackCtl configuration. What you'd like to do more?

Seeya

Thank you!

Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted to do. It was to connect my midi keyboard to yoshimi, now I can do that. I know it must be annoying having guys like me asking stupid questions.

Thanks for your help and for all your software, I'm a huge fan and base my linux-music-production on them. Qjackctl, Qtractor and Qsynth are the ones I open as soon as I turn on the pc.

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