[PD] max midi in devices

[Miller Puckette]

OK - it's easier to make a fixed number of devices and just make it
larger - I'm nervous about making it unlimited because that would mean
re-writing some stuff as loops and that's too much coding for me to do in
a test release (too likely to introduce new bugs).  So I'll do that for now
and try to get a better fix into a later release.

cheers
M

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 05:57:18PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> well, I'm increasing my device numbers, I'm using about 5 or 6 different
> devices and some of them use more than one port.
> 
> Perhaps a nice way would be to have a buttom that adds another device one
> by one as needed. Or maybe split into two columns the inputs and outputs. I
> don't think a small screen size would be that much of an issue.
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
> 2014-08-24 17:07 GMT-03:00 Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com>:
> 
> > 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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