[PD] getting midi controller to work ...

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Thoralf Schulze hat gesagt: // Thoralf Schulze wrote:


> Do i really have to use a virmidi soundcard to get
> those midi signals into pd? 

No. Don't believe the other answers. ;) For reading from a hardware
device, virmidi is not necessary even with older Pd-versions. 

You can only use rawmidi devices with Pd and you need to access
devices named /dev/midiXY. For that, load the oss-emulation modules,
snd-rawmidi, snd_seq_oss, etc. 

Then your USB thing should be available as a device /dev/midiXY. To
access it from Pd, you need to use "-mididev AB" where "AB == XY + 1"

That is, to access /dev/midi20 you need to start Pd as "pd -mididev
21" and so on.

It should work then. 

snd-virmidi is only necessary to connect Pd with other OSS midi
applications, that don't speak ALSA sequencer lingo. 

Ciao
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