Yes, MIDIOX is a free download from midiox.com.

It works with every MIDI device I own (and my count is nearly 100 at this 
time).

One of the major ways I use it is simply to determine which (if any) MIDI 
(including sysex) messages a device is sending.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Partev Barr Sarkissian" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 7:19 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)


> At Line 6, any product that gets Line 6 downloads via MIDI
> instead of USB and for the PC, we use MIDIOX as tool of choice.
> It has a number of good functions and commands for checking a
> number things. I think it's a free download, but you may
> need to have some M-Audio MIDI interface hardware to run it on.
>
> -Partev
>
>
>
> ===============================================================
>
>
>
> --- abhunkin@uncg.edu wrote:
>
> From: "Art Hunkins" 
> To: 
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:31:16 -0400
>
> I agree completely with Iain. The problem is likely in your MIDI drivers;
> your devices are not being recognized.
>
> Also, are other programs recognizing your MIDI devices?
>
> I test out all my MIDI devices using MIDIOX (at midiox.com) on Windows.
> MIDIOX tells me what (if any) messages are getting through, the port and
> channel numbers.
>
> With devices appropriately installed there is no reason why you should be
> getting the console messages you do.
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Iain McCurdy" 
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:57 AM
> Subject: [Csnd] RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)
>
>
>
> I think the key piece of evidence you have given us Jim is the
> *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
> This implies that Csound is not detecting any MIDI input devices on your
> computer. In this case -Ma will not work either and -M99 will not list
> available MIDI devices (there aren't any). You should check that you have
> the appropriate drivers installed. Perhaps confirm that the devices is
> picked up by other software.
> In the meantime try running Csound from the command line. Frontends have a
> tendency to do things for you without asking, trying to be helpful, but 
> not
> always being so.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Iain
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:47:10 -0700
>> From: midiguru23@sbcglobal.net
>> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Csnd] MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)
>>
>> On examining the text that flows into the console messages window when I
>> run CsoundVST.exe, I noticed that it included the line, "Skipping
>> ". I have no idea why it's doing that. It shouldn't do that,
>> should it???
>>
>> So I figured, okay, that's why when I try putting -M99 in  I
>> don't get a list of devices. Heh. So I opened .csoundrc and put that
>> flag into it. And sure enough, now I get an error message in the console
>> window.
>>
>> Not a helpful one, however. It says this:
>>
>> *** PortMIDI: error: device number is out of range
>> *** error opening MIDI in device: -1 (Unknown MIDI error)
>>
>> ...and that's all it says. No list of available devices to choose from.
>>
>> Much earlier in the console output text, it says, "rtmidi: PortMIDI
>> module enabled". I have no idea whether that's good or bad. I mean, a
>> module (whatever that is) has been enabled, but then there's an error.
>> So it wasn't enabled, exactly, was it? The enablement of it was a
>> non-event of some sort, I guess.
>>
>> I hope this additional information will be useful to someone....
>>
>> --JA
>>
>>
>>
>>
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