Re: [Denemo-devel] MIDI in

[Jeremiah Benham]

what audio options is das using? audio backend? midi backend?

Jeremiah

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Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 08:52 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
>> On 03/12/2012 04:31 AM, Richard Shann wrote:
>> > There is a problem with MIDI in - even if the user has no MIDI
>> > controller we connect to the Alsa midi thru, which means that the test
>> > to decide if the user has a midi controller connected fails.
>> 
>> I assume that you are using some sort of test
>It is all being done inside libraries, in this case portmidi. I have put
>a check for if the user hasn't set a specific MIDI controller, which
>will be ok I think.
>This leaving it up to libraries has a real down-side. The portaudio
>outrageously exits if you turn off the MIDI controller and try to do
>something. And to add insult to injury, it waits on stdin first, so you
>can't even trap the onexit() and cope with the situation. So I have
>stopped you switching to MIDI with unsaved data in case it does this.
>BTW das reported that the second-time-no-playback bug is still present.
>I can't get it to happen, so I can't debug it.
>Richard
>
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>>  that checks if the file 
>> /dev/midi is NULL or not. Is that correct? Maybe we can check that only 
>> on the case of using OSS midi. Perhaps we can just put a button in 
>> preferences to check if chosen device file is NULL? What do you think?
>> 
>> Jeremiah
>> 
>> > At the momement, users have to set a pref (startmidiin) to indicate they
>> > want to do that.
>> > I am not sure how to fix this.
>> > Richard
>> >
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