Re: [midishare-devel] Input from MIDI device

[Jay V. <ja...@sy...>]

>I have tried various setups in msDrivers.  (I believe the correct
>setup should be for port 0 to take input from "EDIROL PCR 1" and
>"EDIROL PCR 2", and output to "QuickTime GM Synth".)
>My ~/Library/Preferences/MidiShare/midishare.ini file contains the
>following line (among others):
>active= msQTDriver.so msMidiDriver.so
>I was expecting to be able to play the QuickTime synth from the
>controller keyboard by setting an appropriate configuration in
>msDrivers.  I thought perhaps I'd also need to run msEcho to achieve
>this.  But nothing happens either way.

fire up msDrivers and msDisplay.  set port 0 on msDrivers (click the 
square), then set the EDIROL interfaces.

turn a knob on EDIROL - you should see data in msDisplay.  if you 
don't, get MIDI Monitor (OSX App) and use it to see if MIDI data is 
being received as well.

i have found under OSX that sometimes you have to wait a second or 
two before the MS subsystem gets initialized and set up properly, 
upon starting a MidiShare client app .. so get msDrivers and 
msDisplay working first, then fire up msEcho, and away you go ..

>Again, I have been successful with various other applications on my
>Mac, but not with MidiShare.

the msDrivers interface is sometimes a little confusing.  when you 
first start it, there should be 'blue' squares in the middle - any 
one of these blue squares is a configured MidiShare port.  if you 
don't have any, then you don't have the ports set up properly ...

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Jay Vaughan