[PD] max midi in devices

[Ingo]

Hi Miller,

the box that I'm building with pd uses 4 MIDI devices - 2 x MIDI, 2x MIDI
over USB. With the growing number of wireless MIDI over USB footswitches,
USB-MIDI CC pedales, etc. a number of 8 input devices sounds like a good
idea.

In the good old days (90's) I would have never made it with less than 16
MIDI in/outs ...

The problem that I'm fighting with (in Ubuntu) is still the order of the
devices. Modprobe.d looks like the only way for now. UDEV doesn't seem to be
reliable.

Here's a serious problem: when MIDI3 is not present MIDI4 is taking the
place of MIDI3 and all numberings shift down by 1 which makes reliable
numbering impossible.
(So when I heard that using the device names was possible I was pretty
excited - looks like it's not working, though.  :-(

What about a system of virtual MIDI ports that could assign device names to
fixed MIDI port numbers?

Ingo



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] Im Auftrag von Miller
> Puckette
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. August 2014 20:56
> An: Alexandre Torres Porres
> Cc: Nicolas Montgermont; pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] max midi in devices
> 
> Hmm - I had thought (in '98 or so) that MIDI was gradually disappearing
> and the age of multiple MIDI devices was ending.  But now I guess with
> all those USB "MIDI' devices coming around I need to imagine a future that
> will never be MIDI free.
> 
> It would be easy for me to increase the number of possible deviced in the
> MIDI dialog to some other arbitrary number... but I have no idea what
> would
> be a good one (7? 9?) - at some point it gets unmanageable (and makes the
> window too big for anyone with a very small screen to work with).
> 
> So here's a question for Pd users everywhere - if you have more than 4
> MIDI devices on your systems, how many do you actualy have?
> 
> cheers
> Miller
> 
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 02:29:26AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> > > but I don't have enough MIDI devices to test it out past 4 of
> > > them. To get their names run
> >
> > I have one that calls for 3 ports (Qnexus), and another for 2 (BCF) so
> the
> > two alonw gac go over 4 :)
> >
> >
> 
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