[PD] MIDI under linux (solved, but maybe interesting anyways)

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Sat Sep 1 19:01:10 CEST 2001


Yep.  In other words, devices count from 1, not 0; this also holds for
"-alsadev 1" (which opens "hw:0").

-midiindev 1 actually tries /dev/midi, /dev/midi0, and /dev/midi00...

I'd better explain this better in the doc...

cheers
Miller


On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:37:44PM +0200, Nicolas Lhommet wrote:
> I think it works like this
> 
> -midiindev 1    ->     /dev/midi
> -midiindev 2    ->     /dev/midi01 or, if it fails with that device,
> /dev/midi1
> -midiindev 3    ->     /dev/midi02 or /dev/midi2
> -midiindev 4    ->     /dev/midi03 or /dev/midi3
> ...
> 
> and the same with -midioutdev
> 
> nicolas
> 



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