[PD] Using midi

[Pierre Massat]

Thank you Peter, I will try your suggestions as well.
It would indeed be very nice if we could connect to devices by name !

Cheers,

Pierre.

2015-07-09 16:24 GMT+02:00 Peter P. <peterparker at fastmail.com>:

> * Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> [2015-07-09 03:54]:
> > On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 09:22 +0200, Pierre Massat wrote:
> >
> >
> > > The problem lies with Pd now, in the sense that the midi port is not
> > > open by default, and I have to manually open it every time I start
> > > Pd.
> I posted similar questions to this list a few weeks ago, and IOhannes
> also pointed me towards an external object for pd, saying
> "the "mediasettings" library provides a [midisettings] object that
> allows you to query and set the midi devices."
>
> Without jack I also use aconnect to connect alsa midi ports (although I
> wished this could be handled by device name, not id number, from within
> pd vanilla). There is an [aconnect] external as well.
>
> > > So I was wondering if there was a way to open the port by default at
> > > startup. Perhaps with a startup flag ?
> >
> > pd -alsamidi -mididev 1
> >
> > If you need more ports, specify more numbers to -mididev:
> >
> > pd -alsamidi -mididev 1,2,3
> >
> > BTW. there is also a menu entry "File" -> "Preferences" -> "Save all
> > settings", which is supposed to write all current settings to a file (on
> > Linux: ~/.pdsettings). It seems it saves the settings correctly, but pd
> > doesn't create any ports when started without any cmd options. Maybe
> > this is a bug?
> It feels like one, but I have learned to accept it as a given thing. So,
> whenever you want midi, also specify the -mididev along with it.
>
> It would be so cool to have pd connect to alsa devices by name as well
> as by alsa index number. (2 cents)
>
> best, P
>
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