I think the problem in Linux is that the "old fashioned" /dev/midi* interface (traditionally but incorrectly callesd "OSS") doesn't give applications any way to get the names of the MIDI devices.
The "ALSA" midi code (which I think was contributed long ago by Guenter Geiger) doesn't seem to support any way of selecting devices - I believe it just opens them all. cheers Miller On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:07:30PM +0200, Ingo wrote: > Hi Miller, > > the box that I'm building with pd uses 4 MIDI devices - 2 x MIDI, 2x MIDI > over USB. With the growing number of wireless MIDI over USB footswitches, > USB-MIDI CC pedales, etc. a number of 8 input devices sounds like a good > idea. > > In the good old days (90's) I would have never made it with less than 16 > MIDI in/outs ... > > The problem that I'm fighting with (in Ubuntu) is still the order of the > devices. Modprobe.d looks like the only way for now. UDEV doesn't seem to be > reliable. > > Here's a serious problem: when MIDI3 is not present MIDI4 is taking the > place of MIDI3 and all numberings shift down by 1 which makes reliable > numbering impossible. > (So when I heard that using the device names was possible I was pretty > excited - looks like it's not working, though. :-( > > What about a system of virtual MIDI ports that could assign device names to > fixed MIDI port numbers? > > Ingo > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Pd-list [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Miller > > Puckette > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. August 2014 20:56 > > An: Alexandre Torres Porres > > Cc: Nicolas Montgermont; [email protected] > > Betreff: Re: [PD] max midi in devices > > > > Hmm - I had thought (in '98 or so) that MIDI was gradually disappearing > > and the age of multiple MIDI devices was ending. But now I guess with > > all those USB "MIDI' devices coming around I need to imagine a future that > > will never be MIDI free. > > > > It would be easy for me to increase the number of possible deviced in the > > MIDI dialog to some other arbitrary number... but I have no idea what > > would > > be a good one (7? 9?) - at some point it gets unmanageable (and makes the > > window too big for anyone with a very small screen to work with). > > > > So here's a question for Pd users everywhere - if you have more than 4 > > MIDI devices on your systems, how many do you actualy have? > > > > cheers > > Miller > > > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 02:29:26AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > > > > but I don't have enough MIDI devices to test it out past 4 of > > > > them. To get their names run > > > > > > I have one that calls for 3 ports (Qnexus), and another for 2 (BCF) so > > the > > > two alonw gac go over 4 :) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
