ovenwerks / midikb

keyboard to Jack MIDI program

midikb

keyboard to Jack MIDI program

The idea of midikb is to take a Linux /dev/input/event* device and convert the keycodes to MIDI events.

This is loosely based around the Mackie Control Protocol as used with Ardour.

Aside from single events like a note value, pitch bend value or CC value, midkb will also allow the setup of two keys as a controller or pitch bend with memory. Incoming MIDI can set this memory and the two keys can increment or decrement the memory as well.

There are included example configuration files to let an computer keyboard emulate a 5 channel mackie surface or extension and to use a WiiMote for remote control.

The file INSTALL has all the documentation there is at this time.

midikb's Issues

Jack server not found

I run sudo ./midikb -d /dev/input/by-id/usb-Dell_Dell_USB_Keyboard-event-kbd -n -s -v9 and I get;

Event interface present (handler 2)
Warning: could not open the configuration file ~/.config/midikb.conf: No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jackdmp 1.9.11
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2016 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
self-connect-mode is "Don't restrict self connect requests"
Failed to connect to session bus for device reservation Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead

Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired...
Cannot initialize driver
JackServer::Open failed with -1
Failed to open server
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
jack server not running.

Though jack2 is running (via Cadence) and $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is set. Any ideas? Thanks.