[PD] Was there a change in how MIDI is transmitted ????

Martin Peach martinrp at vax2.concordia.ca
Tue Jun 22 16:10:31 CEST 2004


But Jim, can't you change your receiver to handle running status? It''s part
of the MIDI spec after all...
You just need a variable to hold the last status byte received. When you get
a data byte with no preceding status byte, use the running status.
Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Ruxton" <cinetron at passport.ca>
To: <msp at ucsd.edu>; <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PD] Was there a change in how MIDI is transmitted ????


> Thanks Miller,
>
> I'd love to blame this on MSW but it works on version 0.34 in Windows but
> not 0.37 in Linux. I guess I should try 0.37 in Windows to see if the code
> has changed there as well.
> jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miller Puckette" <mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu>
> To: <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Was there a change in how MIDI is transmitted ????
>
>
> > Here's a conjecture... maybe the MIDI driver (or the OS) has suddenly
> > decided to start filtering the extra bytes out.  That would be bad, but
> > not the first bad thing I've seen a MSW driver and/or OS do...
> >
> > Miller
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:40:57AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > > Hallo,
> > > jim ruxton hat gesagt: // jim ruxton wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've built a few devices that accept MIDI as a control signal and
> > > > they don't work with the latest version of PD. I'm not sure but it
> > > > looks to me like where a ctlout object used to send  Channel ,
> > > > Controller Number and Control Value  it is only sending channel
> > > > information if there is a channel change.
> > >
> > > Not here: ctlin is sending out all three numbers at every change of a
> > > controller value. Maybe there is something wrong with your patch, like
> > > hot and cold inlets messed up?
> > >
> > > Could you create a test patch that shows the behaviour you get?
> > >
> > > Ciao
> > > --
> > >  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
> > >
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