I'm trying to use a NanoKontrol on Raspbian. It works fine if select OSS-MIDI from the menu, but I'm hoping to boot up headless & this is the last hurdle (I think). It's defaulting to ALSA-MIDI for me (with and without arguments). If you're confused ... :(

Thanks,

Joe

On Jun 9, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu wrote:

Well, I'm apparently very confused. When I run Pd with no settings or arguments, I get OSS MIDI. So I don't know why in that post I claimed that 'ALSA midi' was Pd's default.

I looked in the pdsettings and found that 'ALSA MIDI' doesn't even get saved in that file - so the ALSA MIDI setting gets forgotten. So the only way to get 'ALSA MIDI' is to specify it on the command line.

cheers Miller

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On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 07:35:01PM -0700, Joe Newlin via Pd-list wrote: Hi,

This thread is so close to being useful to me:

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2013-02/101248.html

Miller or anyone who knows the answer, can you please tell me what the "this"is that you put in the .pdsettings file? As in, the precise syntax?

Thanks,

Joe

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That should work, yes.

I just realized - you must be using Pd extended - Pd vanilla is OSS by default, but perhaps Pd extended isn't. I'd suggest switching to Pd vanilla - it should be compatible with whatever externs you're using ,and in general it's more stable than extended.

cheers Miller

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:59:39PM +0200, Antoine Villeret via Pd-list wrote:

you can try the [mediasettings] lib from iem which allow you to choose midi driver from patch

or you can also directly send message to pd to setup midi port use : [receive pd] | [print pd] while changing midi settings to monitor what messages you should sent to select OSS MIDI

remember [loadbang] could happen *before* midi and audio settings when pd is launched with -nogui option so if you use a loadbang to change midi settings, you should also have a [delay] just before choosing midi settings to let pd load the driver

moreover, concerning Raspbian, Pd and MIDI, I made a little patch that plugs all ALSA MIDI input device to all output devices (avoiding feedback loop) it's here : https://github.com/avilleret/krapps_remote/blob/master/krapps_remote.pd It's alsa but it's works on Raspbian (but not tested with NanoKontrol) the patch also maps each keyboard key to a MIDI message

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2014-06-09 20:30 GMT+02:00 Joe Newlin via Pd-list pd-list@lists.iem.at:

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I'm trying to use a NanoKontrol on Raspbian. It works fine if select OSS-MIDI from the menu, but I'm hoping to boot up headless & this is the last hurdle (I think). It's defaulting to ALSA-MIDI for me (with and without arguments). If you're confused ... :(

Thanks,

Joe

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On Jun 9, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu wrote:

Well, I'm apparently very confused. When I run Pd with no settings or arguments, I get OSS MIDI. So I don't know why in that post I claimed that 'ALSA midi' was Pd's default.

I looked in the pdsettings and found that 'ALSA MIDI' doesn't even get saved in that file - so the ALSA MIDI setting gets forgotten. So the

only

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way to get 'ALSA MIDI' is to specify it on the command line.

cheers Miller

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On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 07:35:01PM -0700, Joe Newlin via Pd-list wrote: Hi,

This thread is so close to being useful to me:

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2013-02/101248.html

Miller or anyone who knows the answer, can you please tell me what the "this"is that you put in the .pdsettings file? As in, the precise

syntax?

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Thanks,

Joe

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Antoine & Miller-

Those are all good things to know - I installed PD on the Pi a while ago & I just assumed I installed vanilla.

Thank you!

Joe

On Jun 9, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Antoine Villeret antoine.villeret@gmail.com wrote:

2014-06-09 21:06 GMT+02:00 Miller Puckette msp@ucsd.edu:

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That should work, yes.

I just realized - you must be using Pd extended - Pd vanilla is OSS by default, but perhaps Pd extended isn't. I'd suggest switching to Pd vanilla - it should be compatible with whatever externs you're using ,and in general it's more stable than extended.

that's even more true on Raspbian

On 06/10/2014 09:45 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list wrote:

@miller: i think this is along the lines of our recent discussion that we should have a flag to turn OFF each feature that we can turn ON via cmdline flags. please add an "-ossmidi" flag.

i just submitted a patch [1] that allows to override each (binary) flag (and non-default defaults), e.g. adding support for

• -ossmidi
• -gui
• -nostderr

i omitted the "-removelib" and "-rmpath" flags for sanity reasons.

gfmards IOhannes

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/pure-data/patches/524/