Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-09 Thread Christopher Arndt
Am 07.01.19 um 14:07 schrieb Jonathan Brickman: > Christopher, would you mind giving a command-line example or two? Setting a property: jack_property --port system:midi_playback_3 -s prettyname "MIDAS MR18 MIDI Out" (Gives an error, but seems to work) Getting it: jack_property -l --port

Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-07 Thread Jonathan Brickman
Christopher, would you mind giving a command-line example or two? I tried many and also googled a bit, did not find a working way to use jack_property to list or set anything :-) Just for starters, how do you get the UUID of a process? J.E.B. On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 7:33 AM Christopher Arndt

Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-06 Thread Jonathan E. Brickman
Got it!  Thank you, Chris.  Built using yaourt and package jack2-git on Manjaro. J.E.B. On 1/6/19 7:32 AM, Christopher Arndt wrote: Am 06.01.19 um 11:53 schrieb hgn: For a non-destructive solution you could set metadata. This is possible from outside the client, for example with the

Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-06 Thread Christopher Arndt
Am 06.01.19 um 11:53 schrieb hgn: > For a non-destructive solution you could set metadata. > This is possible from outside the client, for example with the > commandline tool jack_property, included in jack(2). jack_property is not installed with jack2, and was only recently (2018-10) included in

Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-06 Thread Hanspeter Portner
On 06.01.19 13:38, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > Didn't find jack_property -- but did find jack_alias, this what you were > thinking of? You're most probably running JACK2. JACK metadata is only implemented for JACK1 as of today, but should be part of next official JACK2 release [1]. [1]

Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-06 Thread Jonathan E. Brickman
Didn't find jack_property -- but did find jack_alias, this what you were thinking of? J.E.B. On 1/6/19 4:53 AM, hgn wrote: For a non-destructive solution you could set metadata. This is possible from outside the client, for example with the commandline tool jack_property, included in

Re: [LAD] Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

2019-01-06 Thread hgn
For a non-destructive solution you could set metadata. This is possible from outside the client, for example with the commandline tool jack_property, included in jack(2). Be advised that not all patchbays and connection tools display these "pretty names". Sometimes you have to switch the