Is it out of the question simply to use the OSS MIDI API? That should be the default, and it's much less buggy than the ALSA one. (Apparently, though, there's sometimes a good reason to use teh ALSA one instead, I remember vaguely.)
To put out "sysex" MIDI, theoretically in either ALSA or OSS, send the bytes out serially, as in "247, NN, NN, 240", not in a list as in "247 NN NN 240". cheers Miller On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 02:20:19AM +0900, PSPunch wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am hoping someone can give me advise on getting my Ubuntu box to send > sysex message over MIDI. > > > Some questions.. > > > 1) > What is the proper format for messages to go into [midiout] or [sysexout]? > > Do I make a list of numbers such as > [247 NN .. .. .. NN 240< > > or do I need to serialize them as [sysexin] receives each byte as > individual messages? > > > 2) > Previous posts on the same topic were a bit too vague for me to catch up > with. Although I use Debian & Ubuntu daily, unfortunately I am not > fluent in developing practices enough to design my own workarounds (at > least not yet). > > The closest I could get was the understanding that there is no method to > get Sysex output to work other than patching Pd so a different kind of > function in ALSA-API will be used. (also that the current releases have > a 20 byte limit. This is probably not my case though) > > If current pd-extended (which I am comfortable with, either stable or > testing) needs patching in order for midiout to work, I would highly > appreciate specific procedures on how to get it going, hopefully on a > fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.04 or 7.10. > > > Any type of help appreciated. > Thanks. > > -- > David Shimamoto > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
