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Old 05-26-2023, 01:37 AM   #1
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Default Unable to use alsa midi software ports

In reaper we can only see hardware (kernel) devices but software (user) ports do not show up.

This is quite unfortunate since there are a lot of tools that work with user ports that we can't combine with Reaper in our workflows.

Please enable the use of alsa midi software/user ports so we can integrate Reaper with other tools on Linux.
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Old 05-26-2023, 05:42 AM   #2
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Can you describe it in more detail? Which midi software ports are not displayed?
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Old 05-26-2023, 03:17 PM   #3
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Not a single one.

Reaper only displays hardware/kernel ports.

Not sure how I can be more detailed about this.
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Old 05-26-2023, 04:09 PM   #4
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Try using JACK, and then do the routing in qjackctl.

I used to use two separate M-Audio Delta 2496 cards, and the only way I was ever able to get both cards working in REAPER for Linux was to use JACK and add the second set of stereo inputs using the routing in qjackctl. Besides making hardware inputs and outputs route-able, JACK can also make connections between multiple audio apps.

Pipewire can probably do it as well, but I've never used it.
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Old 05-27-2023, 01:16 AM   #5
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I'm talking about MIDI not Audio.

Your suggestion is completely irrelevant

(besides that I'm _explicitly_ talking about software ports, not hardware. really not sure what question you think you are answering here)
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Old 05-27-2023, 06:51 AM   #6
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I'm talking about MIDI not Audio.

Your suggestion is completely irrelevant

(besides that I'm _explicitly_ talking about software ports, not hardware. really not sure what question you think you are answering here)
Sorry, I read right past midi and saw "virtual ports", and while in my case it was hardware ports on two cards, one set was being virtualized through the routing matrix in qjackctl.
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Old 05-27-2023, 09:17 AM   #7
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Of course you can route MIDI in qjackctl, or in qpwgraph on pipewire.
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Old 05-30-2023, 07:00 AM   #8
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Hmmm, so we need to create an arbitrary MIDI input in the preferences and connect it externally?


This indeed does seem to work! (not how I expected and I thought I had tried this before ..)

The only issue I'm running into now is reaper not wanting to synchronize to external MTC, but I'll investigate this separately and open another topic.
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