quickest way to loop a MIDI drum file?

[wolftune]

Carla has transport controls. Find them and click the play button. You can also select it in the menu IIRC. Its possible this feature got removed/broken in the last release of carla.

I found the controls, but they're just greyed out. Anyway, it shouldn't matter because I can play the transport in Catia, and it doesn't make the audio or MIDI in Carla do anything.

[wolftune]

… seq64…

Seems quirky but sorta works. No drag and drop as far as I can tell. I had to go through some clunky menus to connect to a synth, doesn't seem to show at all in Catia… but it seems close in other ways. Not quite ideal though.

[milkii]

doesn't seem to show at all in Catia…

you would need to select native JACK in the options and restart

[wolftune]

select native JACK in the options and restart

I see nothing like that in the seq24 options. There's just stuff about Live vs Song mode and about whether to use Jack transport etc.

[milkii]

I see nothing like that in the seq24 options.

i'm referring to seq64, the actively maintained fork of seq24. possibly your distro doesn't package seq64? or was that a slip of the finger? the Native JACK MIDI option is visible in figure 20 on page 33 of the seq64 manual.

[wolftune]

I see nothing like that in the seq24 options.

i'm referring to seq64, the actively maintained fork of seq24. possibly your distro doesn't package seq64? or was that a slip of the finger? the Native JACK MIDI option is visible in figure 20 on page 33 of the seq64 manual.

OH OH OH, I didn't know that existed!

Incidentally, there's a seq64 that isn't what you mean: https://github.com/sauraen/seq64/

And you seem to be talking about https://github.com/ahlstromcj/sequencer64

I added a KXStudio packaging request: https://github.com/KXStudio/Repository/issues/165

Anyway, sooner or later, I'll check this out. It seems promising, really happy to learn that this exists! Thanks!