Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] restricting MIDI channels
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Tue Apr 06 2004 - 14:41:31 EEST
Greetings:
This is a precaffeinated message. You have been warned.
I own a Yamaha MJC8 MIDI patch bay. It's very nice, but alas, it does
nothing more than route connections. I would have preferred a
programmable patch bay. Such devices included many amenities for the
MIDI user, including channel control, scene memory, autoscanning
hardware, etc. Personally, I'd like to see such features in a software
MIDI patch bay. I'd also like to see something like a software MEP4 (a
MIDI event processor box), but again its features could be incorporated
into a programmable patch bay.
At this time, it's either all or nothing with MIDI channels. Very
frustrating when I want to use my TX802 on Ch 1, *only* Qsynth's drums
on Ch 10, and ZynAddSubFX on Ch 5. The synths do in fact include their
own channel selector, but the 802 is multitimbral and I often leave it
in an 8-channel (8 instruments) configuration. So if I have a connection
scene that includes Qsynth and the 802, everything on those eight
channels gets played by Qsynth, but I don't want that to happen.
So, can it be done ? I tried using holborn's SoundFontCombi but
couldn't get it to keep the settings I made. Every time I started
playing a sequence it would flip back to its original state. Sigh...
Best,
dp
Frank Barknecht wrote:
>Hallo,
>Mark Knecht hat gesagt: // Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>
>>Wouldn't it be a nice feature in kaconnnect or qjackctl to one day add
>>MIDI filtering?
>>
>>
>
>There are various ways to do midi filtering already. Matthias Nagorni
>wrote a tool for that whose name I don't remember currently, and it's
>very easy to create even complex filtering rules in Pd/jMax.
>
>Personally I don't think this belongs into a patch bay.
>
>ciao
>
>
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