can't connect BCF2000 to ardour 3

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Hi,

I can’t connect my bfc2000s to Ardour 3. Previously, with A2, I had ardour midi entries listed in the “ALSA” tab of qjackctrl, and I could connect the controllers to ardour from there. But A3 midi entries do not appear anywhere in qjackctrl, I am using jack2, am I missing something?

Thanks
Alessio

#2

oh well, I saw the ardour entries listed in the “midi” tabs, but BCF2000 is still on the “Alsa” tab so no connection can be made

#3

a2jmidi as described here…
http://manual.ardour.org/setting-up-your-system/setting-up-midi/midi-on-linux/

Seablade
#4

thanks seablade! I figured things out a bit but I seem to have issues anyway. With a2jmidi I can connect all of my bfc2000 to midi through, and than connect midi through to A3. I don’t like this solution a lot though, as I’d rather have midi through free for something else.

I figured out that my bcf2000s (I have 3 of them) get listed in the midi tab of qjackctrl as “midi capture #randomnumber”, so I can connect them straight to A3, but with a showstopper issue: everytime I turn them on and off, they have a different number assigned, so there is no way I can automate the connection!

One more thing: it seems that Ardour does not remember the “motorized” option turned on in the “generic midi” preferences. When it’s off the bcf doesn’t work properly, but I should maybe file a bug report for this…

#5

Hi vervelover

I have a few BCFs myself and they have been working well most of the time. I run my BCFs with USB cable only and do not use their midi since my audio cards always have midi. I have not used mu BCFs lately so I cannot say if things are broken in some way.

#6

Yes that would be my first thought, why aren’t you using the USB on the BCFs?

   Seablade
#7

they actually are all connected via USB but are seen by jack as midi ports