[NBLUG/talk] RG to Yamaha Motif ES 8 over USB with ALSA

[Scott Doty]

I sent this to Rosegarden-user, thought maybe I'd ask here too.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to talk to the M8 over USB, both to control it
from Rosegarden, and to record the resulting audio (over USB, if possible).

And BTW, there's pictures at http://ponzo.net/ES/20050113_synth/ :)

 -Scott


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From: Scott Doty <scott at sonic.net>
To: rosegarden-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Rosegarden-user] RG to Yamaha Motif ES 8 over USB with ALSA
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:35:43 -0800

Hi,

A precursory inspection of the list archives didn't turn up anything useful.

I've got a Yamaha Motif ES 8 connected to my computer with USB -- the ALSA
USB driver detects the raw midi ports, but it doesn't show up as a MIDI
synth.

I tried to use virmidi, but was unable to figure out how to get the
raw midi ports connected with aconnect.

The end result is that Rosegarden doesn't see the Motif 8.  I'm bummed! --
I'd like to be able to control the M8 from Rosegarden, and vica-versa.

Is this a limitation in the drivers?  Is there some magic incantation I need
to do?  Thanks for any help you can provide.

 -Scott
p.s. various outputs:
# cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat 
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.8 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux tsk.sonic.net 2.6.10 #8 SMP Fri Feb 18 22:17:18 PST 2005 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config: 
Sound Blaster Audigy (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at 0xd800, irq 22
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at 0xfebff800, irq 17
Yamaha MOTIF ES 8 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.4, full speed
Virtual MIDI Card 1

Audio devices:
0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
1: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices:
0: Emu10k1

Midi devices:
0: Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
2: MOTIF ES 8
3: Virtual Raw MIDI

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9721/23
1: Analog Devices AD1981B
2: mixer20
3: mixer30

# cat /proc/asound/devices
  1:       : sequencer
  4: [0- 0]: hardware dependent
  9: [0- 1]: raw midi
  8: [0- 0]: raw midi
 18: [0- 2]: digital audio playback
 26: [0- 2]: digital audio capture
 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
  0: [0- 0]: ctl
  6: [0- 2]: hardware dependent
 10: [0- 2]: raw midi
 11: [0- 3]: raw midi
 33:       : timer
 52: [1- 4]: digital audio playback
 59: [1- 3]: digital audio capture
 58: [1- 2]: digital audio capture
 57: [1- 1]: digital audio capture
 48: [1- 0]: digital audio playback
 56: [1- 0]: digital audio capture
 32: [1- 0]: ctl
 72: [2- 0]: raw midi
 64: [2- 0]: ctl
107: [3- 3]: raw midi
106: [3- 2]: raw midi
105: [3- 1]: raw midi
104: [3- 0]: raw midi
 96: [3- 0]: ctl

# aconnect 107:0 72:0
Connection failed (Invalid argument)
# aconnect 72:0 107:0
Connection failed (Invalid argument)
# aconnect 104:0 72:0
Connection failed (Invalid argument)

# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Audigy         ]: Audigy - Sound Blaster Audigy
                     Sound Blaster Audigy (rev.3, serial:0x531102) at 0xd800, irq 22
1 [I82801DBICH4   ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
                     Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at 0xfebff800, irq 17
2 [M8             ]: USB-Audio - MOTIF ES 8
                     Yamaha MOTIF ES 8 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.4, full speed
3 [VirMIDI        ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
                     Virtual MIDI Card 1

Thanks...
/sd

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