> > Do you mean that the LED should light when the particular MIDI device you > plugged has been recognized and an appropriate mapping automatically > loaded? >
- dark = port is not in use (or maybe used by a device that only > draws power but doesn't wish to talk), > - lit = port is in use and we have a driver for the device, > - slow blink = overcurrent, > - fast blink = something is connected but it doesn't work well or > we can't figure out what to do with it. > >From what Sébastien said it sounds like you're planning to have it work on a controller-by-controller basis; I was assuming that the Milkymist would be responding to a single MIDI channel, or perhaps a set of 16 (though use of an entire 16-channel bank would probably be a little excessive for this application). Sébastien's or Werner's suggestion's would be equivalent to what I was thinking originally. Sounds like I need to look around in the mailing list archives or MM1 documentation to get a better idea of how incoming signals are handled... Nate On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 01/20/2012 06:55 PM, Nate Eizenga wrote: > >> Hope you don't mind me giving my (admittedly uninformed, perhaps >> out-of-touch) two-cents.Regarding only the external ports: if MIDI over >> USB >> will be possible sometime in the future, extra USB ports could be rather >> nice. >> > > Regular MIDI over USB is possible with the development version of the > software and FPGA design (which is only in source code form on Github at > the moment). My 3-port estimate was for MIDI controller + keyboard + mouse. > With 4 ports, you can have two controllers (or three if you disconnect the > mouse and use the keyboard mouse emulation). Note that USB hubs can be > supported, even though the current software does not. > > > If the LEDs could be made to blink or turn on with an incoming MIDI >> signal, that would reduce some of the hassle of preparing a template on a >> MIDI controller; blinking/LED-on means you're good to go. >> > > That would indeed provide some use for the USB LEDs, though I'm not sure > how this relates to controller mappings. Do you mean that the LED should > light when the particular MIDI device you plugged has been recognized and > an appropriate mapping automatically loaded? > > > Sébastien > ______________________________**_________________ > http://lists.milkymist.org/**listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.**org<http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org> > IRC: #milkymist@Freenode >
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