well, I'm increasing my device numbers, I'm using about 5 or 6 different devices and some of them use more than one port.
Perhaps a nice way would be to have a buttom that adds another device one by one as needed. Or maybe split into two columns the inputs and outputs. I don't think a small screen size would be that much of an issue.
cheers
2014-08-24 17:07 GMT-03:00 Ingo ingo@miamiwave.com:
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:pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at] Im Auftrag von Miller Puckette Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. August 2014 20:56 An: Alexandre Torres Porres Cc: Nicolas Montgermont; pd-list@lists.iem.at 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 :)
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