$ csound -+rtaudio=jack -+rtmidi=alsa -odac:alsa_pcm:playback_ -M 0 midiin.csd Gives me: rtmidi: ALSA module enabled rtaudio: JACK module enabled ...... Csound version 5.06 beta (float samples) Aug 12 2007 midi channel 1 using instr 1 midi channel 2 using instr 1 .... midi channel 14 using instr 1 midi channel 15 using instr 1 midi channel 16 using instr 1 0dBFS level = 32768.0 chnl 1 using instr 1 ALSA lib rawmidi.c:282:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi 0 ALSA: error opening MIDI input device *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error) inactive allocs returned to freespace end of score. overall amps: 0.0 0.0 overall samples out of range: 0 0 1 errors in performance ---------------------------------------------------- I have snd-seq-midi loaded. PortMidi is working okay, so it's not urgent, but does anyone know what this message means? Running a CVS version: Csound version 5.06 beta (float samples) Aug 12 2007 libsndfile-1.0.17 -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com