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Link up multiport MIDI Interface Ports to Jack #6

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@gresade

It is unclear for me how to address the individual MIDI ports of multiport MIDI Devices.
I have 2 Interfaces with 8 ports each hooked up and want to connect the RAW ports to Reaper JACK ports

I am running that in a2jmidid together with JACK, but got some noticable jitter. So I wanted to try jamrouter to replace a2jmidid, which does autogenerate the ports that are automatically mapped into reaper.
To run jamrouter, i do not start (disable) a2jmidid and only run JACK without a2jmidi.

This is the output of jamrouter -l

Starting jamrouter instance 1.
Scanning MIDI devices and ports....

Found ALSA Sequencer Capture ports:
0:0 System: Timer
0:1 System: Announce
14:0 Midi Through: Midi Through Port-0
16:0 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 1
16:1 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 2
16:2 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 3
16:3 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 4
16:4 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 5
16:5 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 6
16:6 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 7
16:7 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 8
16:8 Unitor8: Unitor8 Broadcast
20:0 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 1
20:1 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 2
20:2 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 3
20:3 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 4
20:4 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 5
20:5 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 6
20:6 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 7
20:7 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 8

Found ALSA Sequencer Playback ports:
14:0 Midi Through: Midi Through Port-0
16:0 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 1
16:1 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 2
16:2 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 3
16:3 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 4
16:4 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 5
16:5 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 6
16:6 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 7
16:7 Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 8
16:8 Unitor8: Unitor8 Broadcast
20:0 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 1
20:1 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 2
20:2 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 3
20:3 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 4
20:4 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 5
20:5 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 6
20:6 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 7
20:7 ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 8
130:0 Client-130: qjackctl

Found ALSA Raw MIDI Rx hardware devices:
hw:0,0,0 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 1
hw:0,0,1 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 2
hw:0,0,2 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 3
hw:0,0,3 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 4
hw:0,0,4 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 5
hw:0,0,5 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 6
hw:0,0,6 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 7
hw:0,0,7 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 8
hw:0,0,8 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 Broadcast
hw:1,0,0 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 1
hw:1,0,1 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 2
hw:1,0,2 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 3
hw:1,0,3 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 4
hw:1,0,4 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 5
hw:1,0,5 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 6
hw:1,0,6 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 7
hw:1,0,7 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 8

Found ALSA Raw MIDI Tx hardware devices:
hw:0,0,0 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 1
hw:0,0,1 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 2
hw:0,0,2 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 3
hw:0,0,3 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 4
hw:0,0,4 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 5
hw:0,0,5 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 6
hw:0,0,6 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 7
hw:0,0,7 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 8
hw:0,0,8 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 Broadcast
hw:1,0,0 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 1
hw:1,0,1 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 2
hw:1,0,2 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 3
hw:1,0,3 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 4
hw:1,0,4 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 5
hw:1,0,5 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 6
hw:1,0,6 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 7
hw:1,0,7 USB MIDI: ESI M8U XL: ESI M8U XL MIDI 8

Found JACK MIDI Capture Ports:
REAPER:MIDI Output 1
REAPER:MIDI Output 2
REAPER:MIDI Output 3
REAPER:MIDI Output 4
REAPER:MIDI Output 5
REAPER:MIDI Output 6
REAPER:MIDI Output 7
REAPER:MIDI Output 8
REAPER:MIDI Output 9
REAPER:MIDI Output 10
REAPER:MIDI Output 11
REAPER:MIDI Output 12
REAPER:MIDI Output 13
REAPER:MIDI Output 14
REAPER:MIDI Output 15
REAPER:MIDI Output 16
REAPER:MIDI Output 17
REAPER:MIDI Output 18
REAPER:MIDI Output 19
REAPER:MIDI Output 20

Found JACK MIDI Playback Ports:
REAPER:MIDI Input 1
REAPER:MIDI Input 2
REAPER:MIDI Input 3
REAPER:MIDI Input 4
REAPER:MIDI Input 5
REAPER:MIDI Input 6
REAPER:MIDI Input 7
REAPER:MIDI Input 8
REAPER:MIDI Input 9
REAPER:MIDI Input 10
REAPER:MIDI Input 11
REAPER:MIDI Input 12
REAPER:MIDI Input 13
REAPER:MIDI Input 14
REAPER:MIDI Input 15
REAPER:MIDI Input 16
REAPER:MIDI Input 17

So how do I hook up e.g.
hw:0,0,5 USB MIDI: Unitor8: Unitor8 MIDI 6
with
REAPER:MIDI Input 6

Is this possible?

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