[PD-dev] midiout

[Paulo Casaes]

There's already a sysexin so sysexout makes sense.

I can help testing it on Os X.

p

On 27/10/2010 09:55, Enrique Vetere wrote:
> I agree it's a bug.
> So far I've done a simple c program that outputs the sysex correctly, 
> so I would be able to patch.
> The thing is that if we keep midiout object we need to change it's 
> interface (because it would have to accept a list instead of a float). 
> So maybe better to create a new object sysexout?
>
> PS: On the other hand I need some help building/configuring, I open 
> another thread...
>
> On 27 October 2010 09:36, Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca 
> <mailto:martin.peach at sympatico.ca>> wrote:
>
>     On 2010-10-27 06:10, Enrique Vetere wrote:
>
>         Hi.
>         I've been trying to use midiout but it does not work when
>         sending sysex
>         because it sends 1 byte at a time.
>         Chatting with matju on #irc where he showed me the source
>         code, I think
>         the problem is that midiout uses ultimately
>         sys_alsa_putmidibyte to send
>
>         snd_seq_ev_set_sysex(&ev,1,&data)
>
>         one byte at a time
>
>         So we thought about writing an external that uses alsa-midi
>         functions
>         and he guided me the first steps.
>         Now, the problem is that this external would need access to
>         structure
>         midi_handle, and variables alsa_midioutfd and alsa_nmidiout
>         which are
>         defined in s_midi_alsa.c (because creating and opening ALSA
>         ports is
>         handled there). The functions provided by s_midi are not good
>         enough as
>         I need to
>
>         snd_seq_ev_set_sysex(&ev, data_array_size,data_array)
>
>         So my question is: is it possible to write such external? or I
>         need to
>         patch the sources?
>
>
>     IMHO this is a bug, so you should patch the source, then submit
>     the patch to the tracker. Also it seems to bug differently on
>     different OSs, only linux uses alsa. Pd's sysex implementation
>     didn't work properly on WIN32 either last time I checked.
>
>     Martin
>
>
>
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