Now that many manufacturers are building MIDI controllers (apart from
keyboards, MIDI guitars, wind controllers, etc.) like a single foot pedal, a
single foot switch or gesture control using a full MIDI interface over USB
the number will be growing again. I'm pretty sure of that.

Yeah, I'm guilty of that, I've been buying a couple of these http://www.audiofront.net/MIDIExpression.php

You can plug in any footswitch and it works plug and play as MIDI via USB. It's nice cause sometimes you need a big controller just so you can use the footswitch/expression input, and actually most of cheap MIDI gear won't have it, or maybe just one. Yeah you can do stuff with arduino and plug them in it I suppose, but I'm just lazy with arduino - guess you can build the switches easily too (even lazier with that). So I might end up with 4 of these someday :)

cheers


2014-08-25 7:00 GMT-03:00 Ingo <ingo@miamiwave.com>:
Back then (90's) I had racks of synth that needed to be connected both ways
to software editors and sequencers, many MIDI controlled effects, Eqs,
routers, etc. All connectd both ways for editing.

I had to connect two MIDI interfaces with 8x8 in/outs.
All of those used to have their own port.

I wasn't using Pd at that time, though.
Nowadays most synths got replaced by plugins and only the controllers need
to be connected by MIDI (or MIDI over USB).

Since the majority of the DAWs don't understand anything but MIDI and
neither do most musicians understand anything more complicated than MIDI I'm
assuming that MIDI will stay for quite some more time.

Now that many manufacturers are building MIDI controllers (apart from
keyboards, MIDI guitars, wind controllers, etc.) like a single foot pedal, a
single foot switch or gesture control using a full MIDI interface over USB
the number will be growing again. I'm pretty sure of that.

Instead of connecting one arduino that can handle 30-40 sensors each
controller uses its own MIDI interface.

Ingo



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> m zmoelnig
> Gesendet: Montag, 25. August 2014 11:11
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> Betreff: Re: [PD] max midi in devices
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> On 2014-08-24 22:07, Ingo wrote:
> > In the good old days (90's) I would have never made it with less
> > than 16 MIDI in/outs ...
>
> hold on.
>
> since MIDI has 16 channels, does that mean that you had actually a need
> to address 256 channels?
>
> i understand the need to plug many devices, but i don't really see why
> you cannot plug them into a single (logical) port.
>
> there must be simple "midi router" software for each major platform
> available.
>
> fgasdmr
> IOhannes
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