Not much time to work on that right now yes.

Stéphane 

> Le 29 sept. 2025 à 18:26, Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Stephane et al,
> 
> Gentle nudge here: any more thoughts on this MIDI channel issue, or is the 
> best approach for now to work (or hack) around it?
> 
> Aaron Krister Johnson
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> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> I guess this is a hack, but for keyOn and keyOff coming from the polyphony 
> code (which I traced from looking for `freq` references) I'm thinking 
> changing these in `poly-dsp.h` to further filter by channel at compile time 
> would be key?
> 
>         // MIDI API
>         MapUI* keyOn(int channel, int pitch, int velocity)
>         {
>             if (checkPolyphony()) {
>                 int voice = getFreeVoice();
>                 fVoiceTable[voice]->keyOn(pitch, velocity, 
> fVoiceTable[voice]->fCurNote == kLegatoVoice);
>                 return fVoiceTable[voice];
>             } else {
>                 return 0;
>             }
>         }
> 
>         void keyOff(int channel, int pitch, int velocity = 127)
>         {
>             if (checkPolyphony()) {
>                 int voice = getPlayingVoice(pitch);
>                 if (voice != kNoVoice) {
>                     fVoiceTable[voice]->keyOff();
>                 } else {
>                     fprintf(stderr, "Playing pitch = %d not found\n", pitch);
>                 }
>             }
>         }
> 
> Change to:
> 
>         // MIDI API
>         MapUI* keyOn(int channel, int pitch, int velocity)
>         {
>             if (checkPolyphony() & (channel == 1)) {  // to respond only to 
> MIDI channel 2, actual number is MIDI channel - 1
>                 int voice = getFreeVoice();
>                 fVoiceTable[voice]->keyOn(pitch, velocity, 
> fVoiceTable[voice]->fCurNote == kLegatoVoice);
>                 return fVoiceTable[voice];
>             } else {
>                 return 0;
>             }
>         }
> 
>         void keyOff(int channel, int pitch, int velocity = 127)
>         {
>             if (checkPolyphony() & (channel == 1)) {  // to respond only to 
> MIDI channel 2, actual number is MIDI channel - 1
>                 int voice = getPlayingVoice(pitch);
>                 if (voice != kNoVoice) {
>                     fVoiceTable[voice]->keyOff();
>                 } else {
>                     fprintf(stderr, "Playing pitch = %d not found\n", pitch);
>                 }
>             }
>         }
> 
> But yes, would be better to allow the polyphony/voice-table architecture to 
> be more standards compliant about channels, I'm thinking. I'll test this, for 
> now it will do if it works.
> 
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> Music, etc.:
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> Code:
> https://github.com/akjmicro
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Is this MIDI channel filtering option being considered? If not, would the dev 
> team welcome a patch if I tried my hand at it?
> 
> ~AKJ
> 
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> Music, etc.:
> https://soundcloud.com/aaron-krister-johnson
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> https://aaronkristerjohnson.bandcamp.com/
> http://www.untwelve.org
> Code:
> https://github.com/akjmicro
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 13:31 Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, so it seems others have bumped into this limitation.
> 
> Please, Faust devs, implement this! :D
> 
> Aaron Krister Johnson
> Music, etc.:
> https://soundcloud.com/aaron-krister-johnson
> https://soundcloud.com/filtercreed
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_utjGYbSizWE0dNyr0Vdmg
> https://aaronkristerjohnson.bandcamp.com/
> http://www.untwelve.org
> Code:
> https://github.com/akjmicro
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Additional reading here: https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust/discussions/696
> 
> All of this must be carefully considered...
> 
> Stéphane 
> 
> > Le 10 sept. 2025 à 19:26, Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> a 
> > écrit :
> > 
> > P.S. -- and if this is implemented, covering key/vel/velocity, too :D
> > 
> > Aaron Krister Johnson
> > Music, etc.:
> > https://soundcloud.com/aaron-krister-johnson
> > https://soundcloud.com/filtercreed
> > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_utjGYbSizWE0dNyr0Vdmg
> > https://aaronkristerjohnson.bandcamp.com/
> > http://www.untwelve.org
> > Code:
> > https://github.com/akjmicro
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > Thanks, Stephane, yes, it would be most useful to have a Faust synth only 
> > respond on a declared channel, and `0` (or no specification) being "listen 
> > on all channels".
> > 
> > Would this be in the "options" header, then?
> > 
> > Aaron Krister Johnson
> > Music, etc.:
> > https://soundcloud.com/aaron-krister-johnson
> > https://soundcloud.com/filtercreed
> > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_utjGYbSizWE0dNyr0Vdmg
> > https://aaronkristerjohnson.bandcamp.com/
> > http://www.untwelve.org
> > Code:
> > https://github.com/akjmicro
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM Stéphane Letz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Aaron,
> > 
> > MIDI metadata for standard MIDI control can use MIDI channel: 
> > https://faustdoc.grame.fr/manual/midi/#configuring-midi-in-faust
> > 
> > But it is currently not possible to set a given channel for polyphony, you 
> > can see that the channel info is not used in the polyphonic code for now: 
> > 
> > https://github.com/grame-cncm/faust/blob/f5c23da4fe6e09fa55667ae588f4b6ef9c226cae/architecture/faust/dsp/poly-dsp.h#L900
> > 
> > Should we extend/revisit the syntax of freq/gate/gain convention for 
> > something like [freq: chan],  [gate: chan],  [gain: chan], with the 
> > convention chan = 0 would mean « receive on all channels», like for other 
> > MIDI messages ?
> > 
> > Stéphane 
> > 
> > > Le 10 sept. 2025 à 17:35, Aaron Krister Johnson <[email protected]> a 
> > > écrit :
> > > 
> > > I notice in the manual, certain MIDI slider metadata operations can be 
> > > filtered by a certain MIDI channel, like `keyon` uses the velocity of a 
> > > given key on a given channel.
> > > 
> > > But IMO, these kinds of operations seem geared towards a non-standard way 
> > > of using a MIDI signal. Most useful mono- or poly- synths would want to 
> > > use the general
> > > keywords with special meaning: `freq/key`, `gain/vel`, and `gate` to 
> > > drive the usually needed MIDI parameters in, for instance, a synthesizer 
> > > signal chain.
> > > 
> > > The problem I am having is: I'd like to pair a custom Faust synth with an 
> > > outboard analog monosynth. Ideally, I could assign Faust to listen only 
> > > on a certain MIDI channel.
> > > As it is, it seems like I have to do the opposite: Faust will respond to 
> > > _all_ channels (not ideal) and I make the hardware synth respond to MIDI 
> > > channel 2. They are isolated only
> > > by the fact that they are listening on different MIDI ports (otherwise, 
> > > the Faust synth would be "hearing" both channels and trying to respond to 
> > > both). What I have works for now,
> > > but let's say I want 2 Faust synths -- they'd both be responding to all 
> > > channels that particular virtual port is listening on.
> > > 
> > > So, in short: is there an easy way to make a running Faust synth instance 
> > > listen only to a particular MIDI channel when it's designed to use the 
> > > keywords `freq`, `gain`, and `gate`,
> > > per the docs? How easy would it be to hack Faust or add a feature for 
> > > users for this if not?
> > > 
> > > Aaron Krister Johnson
> > > Music, etc.:
> > > https://soundcloud.com/aaron-krister-johnson
> > > https://soundcloud.com/filtercreed
> > > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_utjGYbSizWE0dNyr0Vdmg
> > > https://aaronkristerjohnson.bandcamp.com/
> > > http://www.untwelve.org
> > > Code:
> > > https://github.com/akjmicro
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