A thought, maybe your instrument is numbered as 1 (this is done internally in Csound).
Try calling instr 100 instead.
If you provide a CSD I can look into it.
Victor
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Aikin <midiguru23@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:17 pm
Subject: [Csnd] Re: MIDI Thru Message Suppression
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
> After further investigation, it seems clear to me that Csound is doing
> something undocumented and arguably very wrong with real-time
> MIDI data. I
> edited my simple MIDI thru instrument to add a print statement,
> like this:
>
> instr 104, mThruTest
> kstatus, kchan, kdata1, kdata2 midiin
> if (kstatus != 0) then
> printks "Got an event to play!\\n", 0.01
> endif
> midiout kstatus, kchan, kdata1, kdata2
> endin
>
> At this point, playing one note at a time on the keyboard,
> pressing and
> releasing the key, causes one message to print on key-down and
> another on
> key-up -- as expected.
>
> If I press and hold more and more notes, then I get one message
> per note-on,
> as before. However, I also get a "new alloc for instr mThruTest"
> on each
> note-on. This should not be happening. There should be only one
> instance of
> mThruTest running, because it certainly isn't instr number 1, so it
> shouldn't be starting new instances. And when I lift my fingers
> one by one
> from the chord, instead of seeing one print statement per note-
> off, I see as
> many print statements as there are active mThruTest instruments.
>
> The basic problem seems to be that Csound is starting extra
> instances of the
> alwayson instrument, which it shouldn't do, because that
> instrument is not
> numbered between 1 and 16. In addition, Csound is shutting off
> notes that
> have been started by the extra instance of mThruTest according
> to some
> arbitrary note-count criterion of its own ... and without
> shutting off the
> instance.
>
> This is all when the keyboard transmits on MIDI channel 1. When
> I switch the
> keyboard to send on channel 2, Csound gets even more
> confusificated. I start
> getting stuck notes when I lift my fingers -- and they're notes
> that I
> didn't play! I can play, for instance, an E and then a G#, and
> when the G#
> starts, Csound may also play a D. The D won't be ended when I
> lift my
> fingers, of course, as it's a phantom event. It will get stuck.
> (I'm playing
> an organ preset on the softsynth, so as to hear stuck notes and
> droppednotes more easily.)
>
> midiin and midiout ought to be simple, transparent objects, but
> it seems
> they're not. The business of extra instances of an alwayson instrument
> getting initiated is just as troubling.
>
> Any insights on this weird situation would be more than welcome....
>
> --JA
>
>
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Dr Victor Lazzarini, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Music,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth