How to set up midi controller (Solved)

[londrioca]

Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon
M-Audio Keystation Mini 32 keyboard
Asus laptop

Can anyone explain in step by step idiot-proof English how to get sounds from this keyboard? I have installed QJackCtl, QSynth, Patchage, PianoBooster, Timidity, Bristol, & Googled till I'm blue in the face but still can't get anything to work. Thanks

[MrEen]

Hi londrioca. This is something I've been struggling with a bit myself. May I suggest you install Yoshimi via the Software Manager. I've had success getting great sounds with this, but still can't figure out how to record what I'm playing. At least it is a start.

If Yoshimi doesn't automatically find your keyboard (can't remember), aconnect -i in the terminal will show you. Here's mine:

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scott@scott-HP ~ $ aconnect -i
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
    0 'Timer           '
    1 'Announce        '
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
    0 'Midi Through Port-0'
    1 'Midi Through Port-1'
    2 'Midi Through Port-2'
    3 'Midi Through Port-3'
client 28: 'AKM320' [type=kernel]
    0 'AKM320 MIDI 1   '

Now I'd know AKM320 is what I'd put in Yoshimi > Settings > Alsa tab > Alsa Midi Source

Hope that helps.

[londrioca]

Fell at the first hurdle:

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~ $ yoshimi
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Failed jack_client_open(), status: 11
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Failed jack_client_open(), status: 11
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Failed jack_client_open(), status: 11
ConfigFile /home/paul/.config/yoshimi/yoshimi.config not found
ConfigFile /home/paul/.config/yoshimi/yoshimi.config still not found, will use default settings
Failed to open bank directory 
Failed to open jack client, trying again
Failed to open jack client, trying again
Failed to open jack client on server default
Failed to connect to jack server
Failed to open MusicClient
Yoshimi stages a strategic retreat :-(

aconnect -i found the keyboard:

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~ $ aconnect -i
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
    0 'Timer           '
    1 'Announce        '
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
    0 'Midi Through Port-0'
client 24: 'Keystation Mini 32' [type=kernel]
    0 'Keystation Mini 32 MIDI 1'

[MrEen]

Sorry. Always hurdles with this stuff. First, it looks like Yoshimi is trying to use JACK instead of Alsa. On the Alsa tab, make sure the little boxed is ticked for "Set as preferred MIDI" I've had lots of struggles with JACK and find Alsa much easier to work with. See if that gets you past those errors.

On the same tab, Keystation Mini 32 goes in the box for Alsa Midi Source.

Still on the same tab, default in the next box, and a check in the box after that.

After making those changes (and clicking Save and Close) you need to restart Yoshimi.

[londrioca]

Aye there's the rub, I can't even open Yoshimi to change anything.

[MrEen]

Okay. Try in the terminal yoshimi -a

[londrioca]

Same:

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~ $ yoshimi -a
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Failed jack_client_open(), status: 11
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Failed jack_client_open(), status: 11
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Failed jack_client_open(), status: 11
ConfigFile /home/paul/.config/yoshimi/yoshimi.config not found
ConfigFile /home/paul/.config/yoshimi/yoshimi.config still not found, will use default settings
Failed to open bank directory 
Failed to open jack client, trying again
Failed to open jack client, trying again
Failed to open jack client on server default
Error, failed to connect to jack server
Failed to open MusicClient
Yoshimi stages a strategic retreat :-(

[MrEen]

WOW. It should not be this difficult!

Lets try a different tack. Open QJackCtl, then click on Start. If no trouble there, then try opening Yoshimi. If that works, then apply the Yoshimi settings I mentioned.

Good luck.

[londrioca]

Tried that but:

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Could not connect to JACK server as client.
- Overall operation failed.
- Unable to connect to server.
Please check the messages window for more info.

Messages gave this:

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22:26:09.757 Patchbay deactivated.
22:26:09.758 Statistics reset.
22:26:09.765 ALSA connection change.
22:26:09.781 D-BUS: Service not available (org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus).
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
22:26:09.792 ALSA connection graph change.
(qjackctl:7304): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(qjackctl:7304): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
22:26:12.996 JACK is starting...
22:26:12.996 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
(qjackctl:7304): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(qjackctl:7304): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
22:26:13.020 JACK was started with PID=7314.
jackdmp 1.9.10
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2013 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Cannot lock down 82274202 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
22:26:13.121 JACK was stopped with exit status=255.
22:26:15.197 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
(qjackctl:7304): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(qjackctl:7304): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_direction: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

[MrEen]

Damn. I'm sorry, but I'm at a loss at the moment. Did I mention that I hate JACK?

You may want to click stop in QJackCtl or it might interfere with other sounds on your system. In fact you might even need to stop and start pulseaudio to get back to normal.

If/when I come up with other ideas I'll let you know.

[londrioca]

My laptop is dual boot so all else fails I've have to use Windows.....

[MrEen]

Well, while I didn't come with anything on my own, I did look at the first review in the Software Manager for Qjackctl that says this:

1. In Synaptic, install jack, jackd, qsynth and qjackctl; 2. In Qsynth, click Setup -> Soundfonts -> Open and add the sf2 file in /usr/share/sounds/sf2 (In my install, it was TimGM6mb.sf2); Click 'Yes' to restart the engine; 3. Plug in your USB midi controller; 4. Open Qjackctl, click Connect; Select the ALSA tab, drag your midi controller to FluidSynth; Then I was able to play music

While it's old, maybe follow that and see what happens?

[londrioca]

I had these installed & that's basically what I tried at first but as soon as I open QSync I get error message:

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Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack). 
Cannot continue without it.

Nevertheless I add the soundfont I have FluidR3_GS.fs2 but when I click 'Start' the error message reappears.

If I carry on and open QJackctl/Connect/Alsa then Fluidsynth doesn't appear, the options are 14:Midi Through and 24:Keystation Mini 32 which appear in both windows. No permutation of connections has any effect.

Meanwhile QSync Messages shows:

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11:15:35.961 Qsynth1: Creating synthesizer engine...
11:15:35.993 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (jack)...
11:15:41.019 Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack). Cannot continue without it.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jackdmp 1.9.10
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2013 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Cannot lock down 82274202 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
JackTemporaryException : now quits...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
fluidsynth: error: Failed to connect to Jack server.

11:19:48.155 Qsynth1: Destroying synthesizer engine...
11:19:48.158 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine terminated.
11:19:53.161 Qsynth1: Creating synthesizer engine...
11:19:53.186 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (jack)...
11:19:58.209 Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack). Cannot continue without it.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jackdmp 1.9.10
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2013 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Cannot lock down 82274202 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
JackTemporaryException : now quits...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
fluidsynth: error: Failed to connect to Jack server.

11:28:20.729 Qsynth1: Destroying synthesizer engine...
11:28:20.731 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine terminated.

I suspect the answer lies in QJackctl/Setup/Settings but where to start?

I also tried opening Qsync then in Setup/Midi changed Midi driver to alsa_seq, in Setup/Audio changed Audio Driver to alsa & added the sound font (i.e. ignored Jack) but still nothing. QSync messages:

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11:48:06.005 Qsynth1: Creating synthesizer engine...
11:48:06.034 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (jack)...
11:48:11.060 Qsynth1: Failed to create the audio driver (jack). Cannot continue without it.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jackdmp 1.9.10
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2013 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Cannot lock down 82274202 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
audio_reservation_init
Acquire audio card Audio0
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
JackTemporaryException : now quits...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel

Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
fluidsynth: error: Failed to connect to Jack server.

11:48:13.266 Qsynth1: Destroying synthesizer engine...
11:48:13.269 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine terminated.
11:48:49.213 Qsynth1: Creating synthesizer engine...
11:48:49.236 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (alsa)...
11:48:49.249 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI router (alsa_seq)...
11:48:49.250 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI driver (alsa_seq)...
11:48:49.251 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI player...
11:48:49.255 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine started.
11:48:49.256 Qsynth1: fluid_synth_set_gain(1)
11:48:49.256 Qsynth1: fluid_synth_set_reverb(0.2,0,1,0.9)
11:48:49.257 Qsynth1: fluid_synth_set_chorus(3,1,0.3,8,0)
fluidsynth: warning: Requested 2 periods, got 3 instead
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]

11:49:01.853 Qsynth1: Stopping MIDI player...
11:49:01.856 Qsynth1: Waiting for MIDI player to terminate...
11:49:01.857 Qsynth1: Destroying MIDI player...
11:49:01.858 Qsynth1: Destroying MIDI driver...
11:49:01.866 Qsynth1: Destroying MIDI router...
11:49:01.867 Qsynth1: Destroying audio driver...
11:49:01.871 Qsynth1: Destroying synthesizer engine...
11:49:01.872 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine terminated.
11:49:02.395 Qsynth1: Creating synthesizer engine...
11:49:02.419 Qsynth1: Loading soundfont: "/usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GS.sf2" (bank offset 0)...
11:49:02.426 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (alsa)...
11:49:02.432 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI router (alsa_seq)...
11:49:02.433 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI driver (alsa_seq)...
11:49:02.433 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI player...
11:49:02.435 Qsynth1: Synthesizer engine started.
11:49:02.436 Qsynth1: fluid_synth_set_gain(1)
11:49:02.436 Qsynth1: fluid_synth_set_reverb(0.2,0,1,0.9)
11:49:02.437 Qsynth1: fluid_synth_set_chorus(3,1,0.3,8,0)
fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is possible.
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=0]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: Requested 2 periods, got 3 instead
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 0 [bank=0 prog=0]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 1 [bank=0 prog=1]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 2 [bank=0 prog=2]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 3 [bank=0 prog=3]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 4 [bank=0 prog=4]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 5 [bank=0 prog=5]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 6 [bank=0 prog=6]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 7 [bank=0 prog=7]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 8 [bank=0 prog=8]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 9 [bank=128 prog=9]

fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 10 [bank=0 prog=10]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 11 [bank=0 prog=11]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 12 [bank=0 prog=12]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 13 [bank=0 prog=13]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 14 [bank=0 prog=14]
fluidsynth: warning: No preset found on channel 15 [bank=0 prog=15]

[MrEen]

Okay. It looks to me like the JACK server is not starting and this page has some ideas to try.

I know at one time I used the answer that has all the pictures showing where to make changes, but don't remember if it helped me or not (my settings are back to default now.) So start with the accepted answer first (the one with the green checkmark next to it) and if that doesn't help, then try the other one.

Good luck!

[londrioca]

I seem to have solved the problem by using yet another program LMMS which I hadn't heard of until I stumbled on this Youtube tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p42P4d5JXwM

Just installed it from Synaptic and It worked out of the box!

[MrEen]

Congrats londrioca!

I have also used LMMS somewhat successfully (much more so than Ardour.) Your topic also spurred me on to get recording figured out and I'm slowly getting there, so thanks for that.

Have fun!

[wfields58]

Thank you both for your effort on this, especially Iondrioca for mentioning LMMS. It looks very promising for mapping my MIDI!

[raubkatzenbaby]

Hi, I solved the issue with QjackCtl by setting up the interface to PCH,0.
You can access the settings by pressing on "Setup..."

Change these values:

Driver: alsa
Interface: hw:PCH,0
MIDI driver: seq