Re: [Jack-Devel] Installers for Jack 1.9.8 (SVN 4340) for Windows 64 and 32 bits

Thank you Graham and Devin !

I 'll see what I can do.
So far I never experienced problems with audio Jack on windows7. 
Everything after installation and target properties for Asio4all, went ok.

I never had to use the midi function with Jack Control, as I used Jack (1.9.4 was the first) to get VST reverb for Grand Orgue program, which I controlled from my EL900 organ console. This Yamaha organ sends 3 midi channels merged from its midi output, upper ch1 or 4, lower ch2 or 5, pedal ch3.

So, when I tried other virtual instruments together, example a Mellotron on ch2, an ARP Odyssey on ch1 and a Moog Taurus on ch3, all played ok from EL900 (audio connections were made with Jack Control, all three to Lexicon PCM Savihosted).
So, I didn't bother with midi on Jack.

Later I tried my other keyboards to control these examples, and couldn't. I mean only my first connected 88mother kbd could control anyone but one at at time, Motif ES was in too, but this too could one at a time. Straight as they were inserted in my laptop. 
Usually I make virtual midi connections with MidiYoke on 32 bit and LoopMidi for both 32 & 64. LoopBe1 is ok but has only one port, so I just left it there stayin'..

I follow very simple connections, just to be able to play quick.
Like : Motif ES6 has direct USB out to laptop where Asio4All is installed.
Open Jack with doubleclick on Jack Portaudio icon. Open stand alone virtual instrument where I preset Midi in from ES - 1 and audio to jackrouter. The same with the stand alone effects.

For older 88mother and EL900 there's the EST Romio II Midi to USB adapter, which works well.

Now as I understand Midi on Jack I have to define connections with the patch bay in Jack Control in order to work with Midi, no?
Like get all 3 synths in my example to be controlled by two or three keyboards ?

It may look naive as I describe, but keep in mind that I'm a musician and not a programmer and I don't speak native English, so computer terminology has a lot of difficulties from Greek to English. Also my laps here speak 70% Greek and the rest in English.... so you see...

Devin, thank you for all your efforts and all devs here, I'm extremely happy to help with tests :-)

Graham, this command has to be added on Jack Portaudio>Properties>Target after the command for ASIO4All v2 ?
Or on Jack Control> Properties>Target ?

Best
Panos

--- Στις Παρ., 22/04/11, ο/η Graham Goode <[hidden]> έγραψε:

Από: Graham Goode <[hidden]>
Θέμα: Re: [Jack-Devel] Installers for Jack 1.9.8 (SVN 4340) for Windows 64 and 32 bits
Προς: "Devin Anderson" <[hidden]>
Κοιν.: "Panos Ghekas" <[hidden]>, "Stéphane Letz <[hidden]>Peter L Jones" <[hidden]>, [hidden]
Ημερομηνία: Παρασκευή, 22 Απρίλιος 2011, 6:27

Hi Panos,

To set Jack up to use the new MIDI driver you need to add this to your
command line (target) property: -X winmme, so the command should start
like this...

jackd.exe -R -S -X winmme -d portaudio

I hope to get time this weekend to do some testing with this too

Kind regards,
GrahamG

On 4/22/11, Devin Anderson <[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi Panos,
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Panos Ghekas <[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I'm now about to test the midi functions, hmm here maybe I'll need sone
>> assistance, I'm afraid...
>
> I'm not too familiar with Windows, but I'll tell you what I can:
>
> 1.) Start `jackd`.
>
> 2.) Connect a MIDI cable from one of the outputs on your MIDI
> interface to one of the inputs on your MIDI interface.
>
> 3.) Start `jack_midi_latency_test` at the command line.  If you know
> the names of the ports you want to connect, then you can start it
> using:
>
>     jack_midi_latency_test [out-port-name] [in-port-name]
>
> (On Windows, this may require an .exe extension.  Or, maybe not.  I'm not
> sure.)
>
> Otherwise, you can start `jack_midi_latency_test` with no arguments
> and connect the input and output ports you intend to use using a GUI
> JACK client.
>
> 4.) Once you get a valid test, do the following:
>
>     jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 [out-port-name] [in-port-name]
>
> This may take a little while, depending on the settings you use to start
> JACK.
>
> 5.) Once the test is finished, send back the output, along with the
> name of the device you used.
>
> The results I've received so far from Windows users haven't been very
> good.  Don't be surprised if there's a little more jitter than you'd
> normally expect.
>
> Thank you for your help! :)
>
> --
> Devin Anderson
> devin (at) charityfinders (dot) com

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