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Solved with Cadence:

This is what it says in the terminal: JACK MIDI <-> ALSA sequencer MIDI bridge, version 8 (7383d268c4bfe85df9f10df6351677659211d1ca) built on Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 Copyright 2006,2007 Dmitry S. Baikov Copyright 2007,2008,2009,2011,2012 Nedko Arnaudov Bridge starting... Using JACK server 'default' ...

Why isn't a2j green (input) to red (output)?

I need to convert ALSA MIDI from a hardware keyboard to Jack MIDI for soft synts and plugins.

Never mind - I've got enough other programs (besides Csound) to play with.

I am trying to install by means of the Software Manager some additional programmes for running Csound but then I get the following warning:


Why is that? I want to keep the kxstudio plugins....

Thank you all!

@ glowrak guy

Yes - I am already using most of the VST's you mention. The reason I'm interested in the K. Brown plugins is that I also want to have some free Buchla emulations. It looks like the only free Buchla emulation VST's available are those by K. Brown.

I would like to use the K Brown Synth Plugins on my Linux Mint computer. I tried them in Carla and LMMS but in both cases the user interfaces of the plugins were without text so that one couldn't see what the knobs were for. Has anybody here been more successful in using these VST plugins?

The important thing for me is the ALSA-MIDI bridge. I saw a video about Aeolus where Catia is used to connect an external MIDI-keyboard to Aeolus, so I installed Catia to do the same with my virtual keyboard. And it worked. But then I tried the same with Carla and it also worked. So I'm wondering if...

I use Carla as a plugin host and rack and also as a tool to make connections between synths, plugins, etc.

No - Carla and Catia. Is there anything you can do with Catia that you cannot do with Carla?

I already use Carla and recently installed Catia too because of its ALSA-MIDI bridge. But it looks like Carla automatically deals with this issue.

So my question is: is there any reason to use Catia when you already use Carla?

After some more attempts I have succeeded in installing Aeolus. Don't know why.

An important point is that you have to start QjackCtl first before starting Aeolus, otherwise Aeolus will do nothing upon clicking on its icon.

Hopefully I will now also get some sounds out of it....

khz wrote:

LinMusGuy wrote:What is happening here?

Root password query.

Problem is that after entering my password, the screen asking for my password immediately reappears. It keeps popping up, and the installation is never completed.

I am trying to install Aeolus from the repositories on my Linux Mint 19.2 Tina system by means of the Software Manager, but the installation isn't completed and I am repeatedly asked to authenticate the installation. See:
What is happening here?

I will leave it as it is for now. It's not such a big problem anyway, and who knows what problems I get into when I want to use .desktop-files. I'm going to concentrate somewhat more on making music, and less on the ins and outs of Linux.