Greetings, Yesterday I upgraded from OSS/Free to commercial OSS. Now MIDI doesn't work in PD, and apparently only PD. All other programs with MIDI still work (Brahms, Jazz, Csound). Is there anyone else using commercial OSS and PD with this problem? BTW, I get the message "opened 1 MIDI input device and 0 MIDI output devices." This never happened under OSS/Free. Thanks.
Regards, Tim
I'm using OSS/Commercial and I too only have MIDI In and no MIDI out. This is because OSS does not support MIDI out because most card do not have hardware MIDI out. If MIDI out works with your card with other programs thats because the MIDI translation is done in software, not by the card. This is what I got from OSS/Commercial documentation.
no sure about a fix, I only use MIDI in.
Ben
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Timothy Rolls wrote:
Well, I guess that explains it. But I am curious about the legitimacy of their claim that it is 100% compatible with OSS/Free (http://www.opensound.com/linux.html). I am still glad I got it. The audio quality on my SB PCI 128 is greatly improved. Thanks for the reply.
Regards, Tim
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doesn't
work in PD, and apparently only PD. All other programs with MIDI still
work
(Brahms, Jazz, Csound). Is there anyone else using commercial OSS and PD with this problem? BTW, I get the message "opened 1 MIDI input device
and 0
Ben,
I'll write them very soon. I have been investigating a few things that haven't panned out, so I am collecting information that I need to contact their Tech Support. I think the stuff you were talking about had to do only with wavetable synths, at least that's how I read it. I found nothing about external devices not working, but I may have missed somthing.
BTW, did you try doing what I talked about in my last e-mail? I'd be interested in knowing if you got the same result.
Best, Tim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999" bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca To: msp@ucsd.edu Cc: "Timothy Rolls" trolls@binghamton.edu; "Pure Data" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Problem with Commercial OSS and PD
of
their claim that it is 100% compatible with OSS/Free (http://www.opensound.com/linux.html). I am still glad I got it. The
audio
out.
This is because OSS does not support MIDI out because most card do
not
still
work
(Brahms, Jazz, Csound). Is there anyone else using commercial OSS
and PD
with this problem? BTW, I get the message "opened 1 MIDI input
device
Hello Tim,
sorry it took me so long to get to it but I did try tweaking the midiindev and midioutdev options. I get the same results as you either one or the other but never both.
Also I noticed that under /dev/sndstat there is one Midi device 0 nammed:
Midi devices: 0: AudioPCI97
Did OSS/Free report the same thing? (did OSS/Free even have sndstat?)
Hope that helps!
let me know what comes from OSS.
Ben
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Timothy Rolls wrote:
Hi Ben, I got the same thing from sndstat. OSS/Free didn't use sndstat. I'm waiting to hear from Joseph about his hack of s_linux.c before I contact OSS about this. I'll let you know when and if I hear anything from either of them. BTW, do you run JAZZ or some other sequencer? If so, could you test if MIDI in and out work on both of those? If you already have, please let me know.
Regards, Tim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999" bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca To: "Timothy Rolls" trolls@binghamton.edu Cc: msp@ucsd.edu; "Pure Data" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 4:27 AM Subject: Re: [PD] Problem with Commercial OSS and PD
contact
their Tech Support. I think the stuff you were talking about had to do
only
with wavetable synths, at least that's how I read it. I found nothing
about
OSS
legitimacy
The
audio
quality on my SB PCI 128 is greatly improved. Thanks for the
reply.
do
not
have hardware MIDI out. If MIDI out works with your card with
other
programs thats because the MIDI translation is done in software,
not
by the card. This is what I got from OSS/Commercial
documentation.
MIDI
doesn't
> work in PD, and apparently only PD. All other programs with
MIDI
OSS
Thanks.
Ok, I've found something interesting. I can either have a MIDI in or MIDI out in PD. If I open with pd -midiindev 0 -midioutdev 1, then I can play midi out, but not in. If I do the reverse, then I get midi in but no midi out.If I try -midiindev 1 -midioutdev1, I get a message that midiout could not be opened.
I still question their claim of 100% compatibility with OSS/Free.
Tim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Miller Puckette" mpuckett@man104-1.ucsd.edu To: "Timothy Rolls" trolls@binghamton.edu Cc: "Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999" bbogart@acs.ryerson.ca; "Pure Data" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Problem with Commercial OSS and PD
audio
still
work
(Brahms, Jazz, Csound). Is there anyone else using commercial OSS
and PD
with this problem? BTW, I get the message "opened 1 MIDI input
device
I don't know if this issue is related, but I experienced identical symptoms. My problem turned out to be that PD makes two separate calls to open(), once for read and once for write when opening the MIDI device. My driver (serial midi) apparently didn't support this. I just hacked s_linux.c to use one open with O_RDRW and everything has been fine.
-- ______________________________ | | Joseph A. Sarlo | | jsarlo@mambo.peabody.jhu.edu |______________________________
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Timothy Rolls wrote:
Aha, this would explain the problem, since sometime since version 0.31 I started allowind separate specification of MIDI input and output devices... so now I have to detect when they're actually the same device and open them together... I'll stick that on the dolist for 0.35 (for which I hopw to get a first unstable release out in a couple of weeks...)
cheers Miller
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:54:42PM -0500, Joseph A. Sarlo wrote: