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Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Need some help with wine + midi

Howdi guys!

I need some help. I'd like to run an application which is only available for Windows and OSX, so my choice is wine. This application needs to send midi signals to the hardware it is supposed to control.

In the product's forum there is a thread which shows how it can be done. But the newest releases of wine don't allow this, because it doesn't support jack anymore.

I think basically it doesn't matter which application it is I run in wine, the question is, is it possible to send midi signals in and out through wine? If so, how? Might be that it's quite trivial, in my defense I have to say that I never worked with midi before.

The soundcard I use is an Edirol UA-25 which is fully supported in Linux, midi works.

Thanks for any ideas!

edit: Forgot two things: I know I could try older versions of wine or running it in a virtual machine, but I want to avoid this.

Last edited by Army (2012-04-27 07:15:33)

triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

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Re: Need some help with wine + midi

For that app, you will probably be using the ALSA-midi interface. So, you shouldn't require Wine to have jack support. - In fact, that picture clearly shows that Wine is using ALSA-midi, but he is using jackd + a2jmidid (which exposes alsa-midi 2 jack-midi).

As long as that software doesn't require a special driver, you should be able to use it. As for the specifics, i would imagine that you would start jackd, start a2jmidid and then start your application. - you also have to make sure your midi device is connecting before launching your app in wine - otherwise the device won't show up in your wine app. You also will need to select your midi interface in your application. After this, you should be able to connect your wine app (through the a2jmidi bridge) to your hardware.

But if for whatever reason you can't get it too work ~ i do actually use a VM for updating firmware on 2 different audio devices (a soundcard and midi-controller) - and it works great. I am using VMware, but i would imagine virtualbox would work very similar..

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Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

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Re: Need some help with wine + midi

Okay, sorry that this took SO long, but I finally managed to take the hardware home and do some tests. First I tried if it works in virtualbox, yes it does. So my soundcard is ok and I can use the software. But I can't seem to get it to work with jack, a2jmidid and wine. I will do some further investigations and stick to the virtualbox solution for now.

triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

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Re: Need some help with wine + midi

Hey Army

Well i am glad at least for now that you have it working via virtualbox. I figured that would work at the very least, which is good.

Unfortunately, without having the hardware/software in front of me - it would be tricky to solve. Although, it is likely solvable, assuming the software runs well in wine. Have you posted directly in their forum?  how about consulting wine's application database?  if the app is listed, someone may have listed some comment, patch or tips on getting it to wrok...