[PD] max midi in devices

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

*Now that many manufacturers are building MIDI controllers (apart
fromkeyboards, MIDI guitars, wind controllers, etc.) like a single foot
pedal, asingle foot switch or gesture control using a full MIDI interface
over USBthe number will be growing again. I'm pretty sure of that.*

Yeah, I'm guilty of that, I've been buying a couple of these
http://www.audiofront.net/MIDIExpression.php

You can plug in any footswitch and it works plug and play as MIDI via USB.
It's nice cause sometimes you need a big controller just so you can use the
footswitch/expression input, and actually most of cheap MIDI gear won't
have it, or maybe just one. Yeah you can do stuff with arduino and plug
them in it I suppose, but I'm just lazy with arduino - guess you can build
the switches easily too (even lazier with that). So I might end up with 4
of these someday :)

cheers


2014-08-25 7:00 GMT-03:00 Ingo <ingo at miamiwave.com>:

> Back then (90's) I had racks of synth that needed to be connected both ways
> to software editors and sequencers, many MIDI controlled effects, Eqs,
> routers, etc. All connectd both ways for editing.
>
> I had to connect two MIDI interfaces with 8x8 in/outs.
> All of those used to have their own port.
>
> I wasn't using Pd at that time, though.
> Nowadays most synths got replaced by plugins and only the controllers need
> to be connected by MIDI (or MIDI over USB).
>
> Since the majority of the DAWs don't understand anything but MIDI and
> neither do most musicians understand anything more complicated than MIDI
> I'm
> assuming that MIDI will stay for quite some more time.
>
> Now that many manufacturers are building MIDI controllers (apart from
> keyboards, MIDI guitars, wind controllers, etc.) like a single foot pedal,
> a
> single foot switch or gesture control using a full MIDI interface over USB
> the number will be growing again. I'm pretty sure of that.
>
> Instead of connecting one arduino that can handle 30-40 sensors each
> controller uses its own MIDI interface.
>
> Ingo
>
>
>
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> IOhannes
> > m zmoelnig
> > Gesendet: Montag, 25. August 2014 11:11
> > An: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> > Betreff: Re: [PD] max midi in devices
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> > On 2014-08-24 22:07, Ingo wrote:
> > > In the good old days (90's) I would have never made it with less
> > > than 16 MIDI in/outs ...
> >
> > hold on.
> >
> > since MIDI has 16 channels, does that mean that you had actually a need
> > to address 256 channels?
> >
> > i understand the need to plug many devices, but i don't really see why
> > you cannot plug them into a single (logical) port.
> >
> > there must be simple "midi router" software for each major platform
> > available.
> >
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> > IOhannes
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