[PD] Problem with Commercial OSS and PD

[Miller Puckette]

Hmm, I've been getting MIDI out on Free OSS, funny it doesn't work
on commercial...

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:17:35PM -0800, 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
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999" <bbogart at acs.ryerson.ca>
> To: "Timothy Rolls" <trolls at binghamton.edu>
> Cc: "Pure Data" <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 5:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Problem with Commercial OSS and PD
> 
> 
> > 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:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > B. Bogart
> > ---------
> >
> >
>