Hi all,

I've tried since several months to connect my YAMAHA CVP 105 keyboard
to my computer. I'm using linux. I've read many howtos on it, but i
still don't know from where to start to understand what doesn't work.
The keyboard is conencted through the joystick port of my soundcard
which is recognised as a enqsonic 1371.

I have the drivers/modules installed (mpu401, snd-ens1371, etc ...)

I just don't know how to test if the connection is OK ? Because i'd
like to test this before trying to understand what's wrong with the
software (rosegarden or anyother).

Does someone has ever conenct a clavinova that way (joystick port) and
could give me some advices ?

Thanks

Julien

Try this site for linux midi help.
http://www.midi-howto.com/

look in your rosegarden program for options to set what ports are used.

If you can get a midi file downloaded or maybe you have one on your
soundcard cd?  Use it to test playback.

Joystick port is mpu401.
Just connect midi output on joystick cable to midi input on keyboard,
and output of keyboard to input on joystick cable.
Then load in a midi file after the ports setup and see if it plays.

You might also need to set what port in the tracks itself.  I do not
know rosegarden so this info is my guess..

Try 0 or 1 for the instrument which in most cases should be piano, or
maybe rosegarden lists them by name instead of midi number?

Did that have 128 midi iinstruments?   Seems to me it was like the
older casio digital pianos.  Mine has only 16 voices, and some models
only had 8.

So your just going to need to try number after number until you learn
what numbers will work as instruments, in order to pick strings, vibes,
etc, and there will be lots of numbers that will not even work.

 .

julien.textoris@gmail.com writes:

> The keyboard is conencted through the joystick port of my soundcard
> which is recognised as a enqsonic 1371.

I also have the 1371.

> Does someone has ever conenct a clavinova that way (joystick port) and
> could give me some advices ?

The same setup here, Clavinova (don't remember the model - a very old one)
through game port.  I'm using noteedit and my Yamaha plays midi coming from
computer but I didn't get it send midi to computer.  Never really had a go to
hunt down the problem.

There is a small problem with playing also, the piano always plys midi channel
one (piano) regardless of what instrument I select in noteedit.

I'm looking for a new PC and then I'll probably try to set up a music
workstation including the midi stuff too, but it will be a while.

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julien.textoris@gmail.com wrote:
> I've tried since several months to connect my YAMAHA CVP 105 keyboard
> to my computer. [...]
> The keyboard is conencted through the joystick port of my soundcard
> which is recognised as a enqsonic 1371.
>
> I have the drivers/modules installed (mpu401, snd-ens1371, etc ...)
>
> I just don't know how to test if the connection is OK ?

Is the sound card driver loaded?  (see /proc/asound/cards)
Does playback of normal sounds (.wav) work?

Does the port appear in the output of "amidi -l"?

To test the connection to the computer, run "amidi -d -p portname".


HTH
Clemens

Thanks to all,
for clemens answers are :

1)i've got many things in /proc/asound/, but all files are of NULL size
?
[root@localhost mnt]# ll /proc/asound/
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 5 sep 16 18:25 AudioPCI -> card0/
dr-xr-xr-x  6 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 card0/
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 cards
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 devices
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 modules
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 oss/
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 pcm
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root 0 sep 16 18:19 seq/
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 timers
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 sep 16 18:25 version

(the smae in the subdirs)

2) i have this when i type amidi -l :
[root@localhost mnt]# amidi -l
Device    Name
hw:0,0    ES1371


3) Connection seems to work (thanks for that, i didn't know how to
start) :
[root@localhost mnt]# amidi -d -p hw:0

FC
FC
FC
00
04
30
00
00
02
00
00
02
04
00
FC
00
00
0E
08
02
00
00
00
08
32
08
30
0E
00
08
00
FC
08
00
00
00
06
30
00
38
00
20
FC
etc ...

So, i'll try the rosegarden counterpart now, and hope i'll won't be
back on the group ;-) !

thanks

Julien

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:19:53 +0200, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
wrote:

>julien.textoris@gmail.com wrote:
>> I've tried since several months to connect my YAMAHA CVP 105 keyboard
>> to my computer. [...]
>> The keyboard is conencted through the joystick port of my soundcard
>> which is recognised as a enqsonic 1371.
>>
>> I have the drivers/modules installed (mpu401, snd-ens1371, etc ...)
>>
>> I just don't know how to test if the connection is OK ?
>
>Is the sound card driver loaded?  (see /proc/asound/cards)
>Does playback of normal sounds (.wav) work?
>
>Does the port appear in the output of "amidi -l"?
>
>To test the connection to the computer, run "amidi -d -p portname".
>HTH
>Clemens

If you can afford the =~ $30 , for a usb-midi adaptor, they work alot
better, and are easier to setup on linux, than the soundcard joystick
connector.

Also, you may not have the joystick enabled.  There is an option in the
kernel for joysticks, and you may have to load a module or rebuild your
kernel, depending on what distribution you have.

Google for "linux joystick" to get tips on how to ensure you have the
joystick working. 



-- 
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:43:33 +0000, zentara wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:19:53 +0200, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
> wrote:
> 
>>julien.textoris@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I've tried since several months to connect my YAMAHA CVP 105 keyboard
>>> to my computer. [...]
>>> The keyboard is conencted through the joystick port of my soundcard
>>> which is recognised as a enqsonic 1371.
>>>
>>> I have the drivers/modules installed (mpu401, snd-ens1371, etc ...)
>>>
>>> I just don't know how to test if the connection is OK ?
>>
>>Is the sound card driver loaded?  (see /proc/asound/cards) Does playback
>>of normal sounds (.wav) work?
>>
>>Does the port appear in the output of "amidi -l"?
>>
>>To test the connection to the computer, run "amidi -d -p portname". HTH
>>Clemens
> 
> If you can afford the =~ $30 , for a usb-midi adaptor, they work alot
> better, and are easier to setup on linux, than the soundcard joystick
> connector.
> 
> Also, you may not have the joystick enabled.

IIRC, it doesn't matter whether the joystick is enabled unless you
want to use a joystick.  daveA

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