[PD] MIDI in channel looks wrong

[Christof Ressi]

> It's not explained in the help patches, either.
Yeah, I just noticed that. Will open an issue.

Christof

On 22.05.2020 22:39, Philip Stone via Pd-list wrote:
> Hi Christof,
>
> You are absolutely correct; I was on port 2. I guess I've never used port 2 for any MIDI devices before, so I never knew that the channel values for the midi-in objects behaved that way. It's not explained in the help patches, either.
>
> At any rate, all is working well, now that I know how to use the channel value. Thank you!
>
>
> Phil
>
>> Channel numbers in objects like [ctlin] are really the MIDI port +
>> channel number:
>> 1: channel 1 on port 1
>> 2: channel 2 on port 1
>> ...
>> 17: channel 1 on port 2
>> 18: channel 2 on port 2
>> ...
>> 27: channel 11 on port 2
>> Are you sure that you're receiving on channel 2? Note that the second
>> outlet of [midiin] gives you the port number, not the channel number!
>> That would explain why you see 2.
>> Christof
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