On Nabble, I just reread the exchanges on the csound list re: -Ma.

Bottom line: Andres Cabrera got the multiple controllers feature working 
very well for Csound 5.10 with PortMidi for Windows and Mac, but nothing for 
Linux (specifically, ALSA).

At last notice (February), Andres was looking fairly closely at adding 
an -Ma ALSA feature. (There seemed to be some problems.)

Andres, I'll make the request once again. Since PortMidi is not available in 
Sugar-on-a-Stick, without an "ALSA -Ma" the multiple-controller version of 
my new music Activity is dead.

Is there any possibility (please, please...)?

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Robinson" 
To: "Art Hunkins" 
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: -Ma in ALSA (Linux)?


> As mentioned previously I've not used midi in over 5 years. I have no
> idea. What does the documentation have to say? What do you get from
> google?
>
> Peter
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Art Hunkins  wrote:
>> Can someone please advise as to the correct  to invoke -Ma (=
>> multiple MIDI controllers) under ALSA (Linux)?
>>
>> I've tried the following (and *many* variants involving -M hw:x,y) 
>> without
>> success:
>> -odac -+rtaudio=alsa -+rtmidi=alsa -Ma
>>
>> The log states (or similar):
>>
>> ALSA lib rawmidi.c:282:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi a
>> ALSA: error opening MIDI input device
>> *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
>>
>> I very much hope that the -Ma option is not limited to PortMidi. The only
>> MIDI option in SoaS (Sugar-on-a-Stick) is ALSA. (Its pulseaudio option
>> doesn't include MIDI.) I need the multiple controller option.
>>
>> FYI: for a *single* MIDI device, the standard format -M hw:1,0 works 
>> fine.
>> (We're making progress.)
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>> 



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Hi Art,

It wasn't working (my fault...), but I just committed a fix, so -Ma
should now work with alsa as well.

Cheers,
Andrés

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Art Hunkins  wrote:
> On Nabble, I just reread the exchanges on the csound list re: -Ma.
>
> Bottom line: Andres Cabrera got the multiple controllers feature working
> very well for Csound 5.10 with PortMidi for Windows and Mac, but nothing for
> Linux (specifically, ALSA).
>
> At last notice (February), Andres was looking fairly closely at adding an
> -Ma ALSA feature. (There seemed to be some problems.)
>
> Andres, I'll make the request once again. Since PortMidi is not available in
> Sugar-on-a-Stick, without an "ALSA -Ma" the multiple-controller version of
> my new music Activity is dead.
>
> Is there any possibility (please, please...)?
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Robinson" 
> To: "Art Hunkins" 
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:30 PM
> Subject: Re: -Ma in ALSA (Linux)?
>
>
>> As mentioned previously I've not used midi in over 5 years. I have no
>> idea. What does the documentation have to say? What do you get from
>> google?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Art Hunkins  wrote:
>>>
>>> Can someone please advise as to the correct  to invoke -Ma (=
>>> multiple MIDI controllers) under ALSA (Linux)?
>>>
>>> I've tried the following (and *many* variants involving -M hw:x,y)
>>> without
>>> success:
>>> -odac -+rtaudio=alsa -+rtmidi=alsa -Ma
>>>
>>> The log states (or similar):
>>>
>>> ALSA lib rawmidi.c:282:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi a
>>> ALSA: error opening MIDI input device
>>> *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
>>>
>>> I very much hope that the -Ma option is not limited to PortMidi. The only
>>> MIDI option in SoaS (Sugar-on-a-Stick) is ALSA. (Its pulseaudio option
>>> doesn't include MIDI.) I need the multiple controller option.
>>>
>>> FYI: for a *single* MIDI device, the standard format -M hw:1,0 works
>>> fine.
>>> (We're making progress.)
>>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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