A little more MIDI help, please

[Kevin Kofler]

Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Wanna tell me how to do this? Do I turn on Jack and there find something
> called Dummy Input Driver and Dummy Output Driver that I connect my
> application to?

In qjackctl it's somewhere in the UI (or was last I checked), on the command 
line you need to pass it the correct switches.

> And I was fooling around a while back with MIDI and also discovered a
> number of other things, like:
> 
> - A kernel module or port (?) called 'MIDI Through'
> - Kernel modules called snd-seq-virmidi and snd-virmidi
> 
> Are these what you are talking about? Do they do what I want? How do I use
> them? When I tried, I got absolutely not a peep.

I think those are all for hardware MIDI and/or for a MIDI output port for 
external sequencers. The commonly-used software MIDI sequencers don't use 
these.

        Kevin Kofler