Bug#979138: jackd2: should this Recommends or Suggests a2jmidid ?
Package: jackd2
Version: 1.9.16~dfsg-1
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de
From the following information in the MuseScore fora…
> beatboxchad • Oct 17, 2020 - 20:52
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>| In reply to Sorry - I thought the linked… by willy3
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>> JACK does MIDI routing, but it doesn't implement a lot of like,
>> hardware driver stuff. ALSA does that. When you plug a device into a
>> Linux box, it's ALSA that handles it. JACK MIDI does not see what
>> ALSA sees. So on Linux, there's one more thing you need to do to glue
>> it all together. There's a program, available on most distros, called
>> a2jmidid. Run it like this: a2jmidid -e and you'll see all your ALSA
>> devices in the MIDI tab of QJackCtl, or in Carla or Patchage or
>> whatever you're using.
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>| In reply to JACK does MIDI routing, but… by beatboxchad
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>> Oh, and if you're using JACK 1, I think this works out of the box.
>> JACK 2, the C++ port of JACK that handles multicore better and is
>> very popular, is still working on feature parity around this so
>> that's why you need a2jmidid.
… it makes me think that the jackd2 binary package probably
should have a relationship with a2jmidid and possibly even
mention it (in the long Description?).
I’ve not yet used MIDI with JACK myself but some people seem
to run into this lack of functionality in jackd2.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages jackd2 depends on:
ii coreutils 8.32-4+b1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74
ii libasound2 1.2.4-1.1~
ii libc6 2.31-6
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-1
ii libelogind0 [libsystemd0] 246.9.1-1+debian1
ii libexpat1 2.2.10-1
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-3
ii libjack-jackd2-0 1.9.16~dfsg-1
ii libreadline8 8.1-1
ii libsamplerate0 0.1.9-2
ii libsndfile1 1.0.28-8
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-3
ii python3 3.9.1-1
ii python3-dbus 1.2.16-4+b1
Versions of packages jackd2 recommends:
pn jackd2-firewire <none>
ii libpam-modules 1.4.0-2
ii qjackctl 0.9.0-1
Versions of packages jackd2 suggests:
pn jack-tools <none>
pn meterbridge <none>
-- debconf information:
* jackd/tweak_rt_limits: true
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