[L2Ork-dev] midi not working

[Albert Graef]

MIDI auto-connect is evil, especially with the ALSA MIDI Through devices.
That's why it was removed from vanilla a long time ago [1] and pd-l2ork
followed suit [2].

[1] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/commi/dd87681
[2] https://github.com/pd-l2ork/pd/commit/dcbb637

I'm not sure which vanilla Pd version Antonio is running there and what
kind of audio API he uses, but if he's really using ALSA MIDI and it still
has MIDI auto-connect then it must be an ancient version. :)


On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Ivica Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:

> It all depends on what are the default settings when starting Pd. In
> pd-l2ork I found it better to not try to auto connect midi ports because it
> was impossible to detect whether such ports even existed which led to
> unexpected startup issues particularly on low power platforms like
> Raspberry Pi. IIRC you should be able to add additional startup flags which
> should take care of the auto connection. Hope this helps.
>
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> On Jul 14, 2016 9:17 PM, "Antonio Roberts" <antonio at hellocatfood.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > the setup of ALSA MIDI devices is exactly the same as with vanilla Pd.
>> That
>> > is, you have to use a 3rd party utility like qjackctl to hook up your
>> > nanokontrol ALSA MIDI device to Pd-L2Ork's ALSA MIDI input (like I did
>> with
>> > my Akai MPK mini2, cf. attached screenie connections.png).
>> Maybe I'm mistaken but has this always been the case with pd-l2ork?
>> I'm using vanilla right now with the controller and haven't had to
>> open jack, qtjackl or anything else in order to get it working.
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>> On 13 July 2016 at 19:05, Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Antonio,
>> >
>> > the setup of ALSA MIDI devices is exactly the same as with vanilla Pd.
>> That
>> > is, you have to use a 3rd party utility like qjackctl to hook up your
>> > nanokontrol ALSA MIDI device to Pd-L2Ork's ALSA MIDI input (like I did
>> with
>> > my Akai MPK mini2, cf. attached screenie connections.png).
>> >
>> > You can also use qjackctl's Patchbay dialog to make the connections
>> > permanent (cf. patchbay.png). If you do that and have qjackctl running
>> when
>> > launching pd-l2ork then the connections should be established
>> automatically
>> > (as you can verify using qjackctl's Connections dialog). In fact, the
>> same
>> > qjackctl patchbay will work for all Pd flavors.
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> > Albert
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Antonio Roberts <
>> antonio at hellocatfood.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm using Pd-l2ork version 20160619 on Ubuntu 16.04 and I've noticed
>> >> that midi isn't working. I'm attempting to use a korg nanokontrol 2
>> >> and when I change the midi in/out ports it doesn't save them.
>> >>
>> >> I've tried the same device in pd vanilla and it works.
>> >>
>> >> Is anyone else having problems? Is there a fix?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Antonio
>> >>
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>> >
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