another question, does [midiin] receive sysex messages?
cheers
2016-07-29 6:53 GMT-03:00 Christof Ressi christof.ressi@gmx.at:
I think there seems to be a misunderstanding. I never advocated to rename [midiout] to [sysexout] - on the contrary! I used an old post by Martin to show that in the past [midiout] used to be broken on some systems or behave differently. For example, Martin apparantly could only send sysex, but no channel messages.
For me on Win7 [midiout] works fine in a way that I can send *all* kind of valid MIDI messages. I just wanted to make sure that this is now the case for all major systems.
regarding a list method for [midiout]: since all popular objects for streaming bytes [netsend -b], [udpsend], [comport], etc. accept lists, it is somewhat counterintuitive that this is not the case for [midiout]. if you want to keep this kind of special behaviour, it would be cool to make it clear in the help patch - to prevent future users from tearing their hair out :-)
Christof
Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Juli 2016 um 02:11 Uhr Von: "Miller Puckette" msp@ucsd.edu An: "Christof Ressi" christof.ressi@gmx.at Cc: Pd-List pd-list@lists.iem.at Betreff: Re: [PD] current status of [midiout]
My plan is simply never to make any incompatible change if I can help it
so midiout is there for good.
I don't see the need for any 'sysexout' object - 'midiout' does sysex
and/or
whatever else you want to throw at it. On linux you can even use it to output incorrectly formed MIDI if you want - for instance to stress-test MIDI input devices.
cheers Miller
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:11:47PM +0200, Christof Ressi wrote:
Hi,
what's the current status of the [midiout] object? there have been
warnings in the past and the help patch doesn't say much about it.
for example i found this old thread in the list archives:
https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2010-02/076074.html
here Martin says:
Shouldn't [midiout] be renamed to [sysexout]? It only does sysex,
you can't send any other kind of MIDI message with [midiout].
I'm on Win7 and [midiout] works like a charm. I can send both channel
and system messages (though I have only tried system common and system realtime so far, still have to test sysex). I can easily play MIDI files with [mrpeach/midifile] -> [drip] -> [midiout] on my old Roland D110 :-).
my question is: have all those supposed issues with [midiout] been
fixed? does it work the same way on all systems? are there any pitfalls I have to consider beforehand?
@Miller: would you mind adding a note to the helpfile that [midiout]
only accepts single characters as floats but no lists? it took me some time to figure that out... or even better: adding a list method? ;-)
Christof
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