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[Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)

Date2009-08-04 21:17
From"Partev Barr Sarkissian"
Subject[Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)
That's cool. Keep up the good work.

-Partev

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--- abhunkin@uncg.edu wrote:

From: "Art Hunkins" 
To: 
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:13:05 -0400

University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

I'm emeritus in music, after teaching theory and composition (including 
electronic music) and cello there for 30 years.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Partev Barr Sarkissian" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 7:43 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)


> We use it Line 6 in customer support and is standard issue for us
> service & repair techs. But it has to go thru a piece of
> M-Audio MIDI Intreface gear to run it. It mointors, it loads,
> it slices and dices MIDI just about any way you like it.
>
> -Patev
>
> ps- what school is the uncg in your domain?
>
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> --- abhunkin@uncg.edu wrote:
>
> From: "Art Hunkins" 
> To: 
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: RE: MIDI Input Woes (footnotes)
> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:35:47 -0400
>
> 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
>>
>>
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>> --- 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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