[PD] max midi in devices

[Miller Puckette]

I think the problem in Linux is that the "old fashioned" /dev/midi*
interface (traditionally but incorrectly callesd "OSS") doesn't give
applications any way to get the names of the MIDI devices.

The "ALSA" midi code (which I think was contributed long ago by Guenter
Geiger) doesn't seem to support any way of selecting devices - I believe it 
just opens them all.

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:07:30PM +0200, Ingo wrote:
> 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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