[PD] MIDI connection problem with commandline-parameters

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 18:57:31 CEST 2015


You’re probably doing it too quickly after launching pd. I usually sleep a second or two after starting pd before calling aconnect in my scripting. Pd probably sets up the midi connection to ALSA much more quickly on your desktop than on the pi which is why it works on 1 and not on the other.

Also, I recommend looking up writing custom udev rules to automatically call aconnect whenenever you hotplug the midi device. I use this and it it’s great since I don’t have to worry if anything is unplugged, etc.

--------
Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <https://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> On Oct 8, 2015, at 7:41 AM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> 
> From: cornicis <cornicis at googlemail.com <mailto:cornicis at googlemail.com>>
> Date: October 8, 2015 at 7:09:22 AM MDT
> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list at lists.iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] MIDI connection problem with commandline-parameters
> 
> 
> Thanks for the fast response!
> 
> On 08.10.2015 13:55, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> On 2015-10-08 13:39, cornicis via Pd-list wrote:
>>> won't get any MIDI input 
>>> (miditest.pd is just printing incoming midi notes).
>> isn't this what you want? if you don't get MIDI input, how can it print
>> incoming midi notes?
> I guess there's some misunterstanding, I don't think that miditest.pd or
> generally PD-MIDI is faulty, you're completely right: as long as nothing
> is connected, nothing can get printed.
> My problem lies in having my MIDI-controller connected on PD-startup.
> Right now my only possibility to connect without GUI is to execute
> "aconnect 20, 128" after PD has opened MIDI. To speak more concretely:
> after starting PD with mididev-parameters I want to have Arduino
> connected to PureData in aconnect -l. This works on my desktop machine
> but not on the fresh updated raspberry.
> 
>>> $ puredata -d 3 -verbose -nogui -alsamidi -midiindev 1  -listdev
>> try "-mididev 2" (or "-midiindev 2" if you prefer)
> I retried, but I already tested various configurations. For now I tried:
> -mididev and -midiindev with parameters 0/1/2/3/20/21
> -midiaddindev 'Arduino Leonardo' and 'Arduino Leonardo MIDI 1' which
> unfortunately didn't open any ALSA Client.
> 
> As expected compiling 0.46.7 didn't help. Root privileges didn't help
> either.
> 
> I'm pretty clueless what my next steps would be to trace this issue. As
> MIDI works in ALSA and PD I think there has to be a communication
> problem on opening the ALSA client. Maybe I'm missing a package? What's
> involved in setting the MIDI connection on startup? I supposed that PD
> uses aconnect itself to connect to MIDI devices, but maybe there's
> something different going on?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20151008/986f0c31/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Pd-list mailing list