Aha! Yes, Dan Wilcox contributed a whole raft of changes to s_midi_alsa.c August 2017. So it looks like we're in the clear after all...
cheers Miller On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:06:10PM +0000, mario buoninfante wrote: > Hi Simon, > > yes the message is received and understood by other devices, so at the end > of the day it's not a problem, mine is more curiosity :D > > btw I've got a little update, after chatting with another Pd user, I figured > it out that the problem doesn't occur on Pd 0.48.0 and 0.48.1 . but it does > occur on Pd 0.46.1, the version I was using when I discovered this. > so my suspect is that something changed in the code. I'll have a look at > github. does anyone know anything about that> > > > cheers, > Mario > > On 14/03/18 21:49, Simon Iten wrote: > > hi there, > > > > i have sent sysex with puredata for some years now, and i never had any > > problems, even with large chunks. > > i have used attached abstraction to send sysex, maybe it helps? > > > > midi IS a serial protocol, so it is perfectly valid to send one byte at > > a time at least over din midi. in fact i am doing that with arduinos all > > the time. (usb midi is a different beast) > > > > do the “special” midiout noteon and noteoff messages work when a > > synthmodule or similar is connected? > > > > > > > > > > > On 14 Mar 2018, at 21:28, mario buoninfante > > > <mario.buoninfa...@gmail.com <mailto:mario.buoninfa...@gmail.com>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Miller, > > > > > > yap I'm using ALSA. > > > > > > btw, I had a look at the source code (I want to clarify I'm not a C > > > programmer :) ) and from what I found in x_midi.c and s_midi.c, it > > > kind of make sense that [midiout] returns 1 byte at time. > > > > > > it seems to me we're missing a way to detect outgoing sysex messages > > > (maybe having a dedicated object could help), so there's no way to > > > collect a sysex and send it out in one go (ie having an array to > > > return). I apologize for my trivial description of the "problem", > > > but this is what I think is causing this behaviour. > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > Mario > > > > > > > > > On 13/03/18 04:37, Miller Puckette wrote: > > > > Hi Mario - > > > > > > > > Perhaps you said this in the previous message which I missed... are you > > > > using ALSA MIDI system or OSS? > > > > > > > > MIDI support has always been a problem in Pd... largely because I don't > > > > have > > > > a lot of experience with it. > > > > > > > > cheers > > > > Miller > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:04:00AM +0000, mario buoninfante wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I ran few more tests on Linux trying to understand what's going on > > > > > with > > > > > [midiout] and sysex messages. > > > > > > > > > > I discovered that it's not just about sysex. I'm monitoring MIDI from > > > > > Pd > > > > > with /KMidimon /and /GMIDImonitor/, and I noticed that also sending > > > > > Note On > > > > > messages with [midiout] seems to be in some way different then > > > > > sending the > > > > > same message using [noteout]. > > > > > > > > > > when Note On is sent using [midiout], this will spit single bytes > > > > > that are > > > > > recognized as single byte sysex messages by the MIDI monitors!!!!! > > > > > > > > > > has anyone ever experienced the same? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > > > Mario > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management > > > > > ->https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing list > > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
