Hi Christof,
You are absolutely correct; I was on port 2. I guess I've never used port 2 for any MIDI devices before, so I never knew that the channel values for the midi-in objects behaved that way. It's not explained in the help patches, either.
At any rate, all is working well, now that I know how to use the channel value. Thank you!
Phil
Channel numbers in objects like [ctlin] are really the MIDI port + channel number:
1: channel 1 on port 1 2: channel 2 on port 1 ... 17: channel 1 on port 2 18: channel 2 on port 2 ...
27: channel 11 on port 2
Are you sure that you're receiving on channel 2? Note that the second outlet of [midiin] gives you the port number, not the channel number! That would explain why you see 2.
Christof