Hallo, Thoralf Schulze hat gesagt: // Thoralf Schulze wrote:
Do i really have to use a virmidi soundcard to get those midi signals into pd?
No. Don't believe the other answers. ;) For reading from a hardware device, virmidi is not necessary even with older Pd-versions.
You can only use rawmidi devices with Pd and you need to access devices named /dev/midiXY. For that, load the oss-emulation modules, snd-rawmidi, snd_seq_oss, etc.
Then your USB thing should be available as a device /dev/midiXY. To access it from Pd, you need to use "-mididev AB" where "AB == XY + 1"
That is, to access /dev/midi20 you need to start Pd as "pd -mididev 21" and so on.
It should work then.
snd-virmidi is only necessary to connect Pd with other OSS midi applications, that don't speak ALSA sequencer lingo.
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