Multiple ports: In the command line when you run Pd you can specify more than 4 devices by using the commands -midiindev 1,2,3,4,5 etc... and -midioutdev. Run "pd.exe -listdev" to get the device numbers. Also read the manual, it talks about this.

Ports vs. channels: Pd's channel system works that the first device has MIDI channels 1-16, the second device has has channels 17-32, etc. The order of the devices depends on what order you specify them in the command line (or, I guess, using the new MIDI device menu).

MIDI time clock: There are two native timeclock objects. One is [midirealtimein], and I can't remember the name of the other one. There's no documentation on them, but search the pd-list's history, this topic's been brought up several times.

cheers, David

. . David McCallum . Music wants to be free . http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta .

Harald Wiltsche wrote:

1. is it possible to use more than 4 midi-ports? in the media-menue there

are only four possible ports. 2) if i use notein or noteout i´m only able to specify a midi channel but not a midi port. using midiin or midiout object causes trouble: while creating these object, pd tells me that these objects are only inplemented in linux. but the midiin object does exactly the same as the notein object. problems come up when i try to send the output of the midiin object to the input of the midiout object. in this case pd tells me that in osx byte-by-byte midi transmission is not implemented... osx? i use win2k! so is there any possibility to transmit midi-data via midiin and midiout on specified ports? 3) is there a midiclock-object?