Re: [Jack-Devel] MIDI routing not working

Le 16 mai 2011 à 22:04, Devin Anderson a écrit :

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Paul Davis <[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Sergio Krakowski Costa Rego
>> <[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I've just downloaded Jack and it's possibilities are amazing.
>>> But I couldn't use the MIDI comunication functionality. I turn
>>> on JackPilot, then Live and Pure Data. When I open the PD
>>> MIDI preferences there is no Jack Router, nor any CoreMIDI driver.
>> 
>> There is no bridge between JackMIDI and CoreMIDI on OSX that has been
>> released at this time.
> 
> While I did rewrite the CoreMIDI driver for JACK 2, I had no way of
> testing it and I've never used it.  So, the following might be bogus.
> 
> With JACK 2, you can specify a number of virtual inputs and a number
> of virtual outputs as arguments to the JACK CoreMIDI driver.
> Unfortunately, I have no idea how those arguments might be set, as
> MIDI drivers can't take arguments at the command line.  It's my
> understanding that `jackdbus` can handle slave driver arguments, but I
> don't know if `jackdbus` runs on any other platform besides Linux, or
> if there is an equivalent on Mac.
> 
> Stéphane and Nedko may have more to say about this.
> 

Several points:

1) there is indeed a JackMIDI/CoreMIDI bridge available since JackOSX 0.88.

2) Live uses CoreMidi. If Pure Data does support CoreMidi, then there is not need to use JackMIDI at all, you can simply establish a CoreMidi connection between Live and PD. This has to be tested first.

Stéphane 

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