Hi.

I've asked this before but the answer was that it was impossible. I had the impression that Csound 6 would make it possible, but maybe I was just fantasizing.

Can I have an arbitrary number of RT MIDI output ports? My "microtonal" sequencer will most likely remain MIDIless until I can send to more than 16 individual channels, but MIDI output is the number one request I've had since I published it in 2008.

Pd's implementation works so that if you have 2 output ports, channels 16-31 (IIRC) send to the second port's 0-15. I toyed with the idea of creating multiple Csound instances, each filtering messages for one port, but the level of complexity grew, and timing is important too.

Have any solutions appeared for this?

Thanks!

-Chuckk

Hi Chuckk,

Adding multiple devices seems like it would be a large task. I don't
know if anyone's done an analysis on the code to understand what would
be necessary.  Perhaps add a ticket to the Csound issue tracker on
github for this?

A short term solution might be to use OSC output from Csound, sending
it to localhost on on a port you could listen to from Rationale using
pyOSC, then send out MIDI from there. I imagine there might be some
timing issues there but it might work.

steven

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Chuckk Hubbard

<badmuthahubbard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again.
> I've decided to try pygame for this. I'd looked into it before, but the MIDI
> part wasn't working well on all platforms. It's also too bad I won't be able
> to sync the timing perfectly to have MIDI outputs working side-by-side with
> Csound outputs, but I suspect most of the potential users who've asked about
> MIDI outputs are not Csound users. I've also tried to keep dependencies to a
> minimum. Any other suggestions welcome!
> -Chuckk
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I've asked this before but the answer was that it was impossible. I had
>> the impression that Csound 6 would make it possible, but maybe I was just
>> fantasizing.
>> Can I have an arbitrary number of RT MIDI output ports? My "microtonal"
>> sequencer will most likely remain MIDIless until I can send to more than 16
>> individual channels, but MIDI output is the number one request I've had
>> since I published it in 2008.
>> Pd's implementation works so that if you have 2 output ports, channels
>> 16-31 (IIRC) send to the second port's 0-15. I toyed with the idea of
>> creating multiple Csound instances, each filtering messages for one port,
>> but the level of complexity grew, and timing is important too.
>>
>>
>> Have any solutions appeared for this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Chuckk
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.badmuthahubbard.com

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