Re: [Spiralmodular-user] Midi controllers?

[Andy P. <pos...@ed...>]

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From: "James Stone" <jm...@ds...>
To: spi...@li...
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:23:58 +0100

> I am trying to get midi controllers (like modulation wheel or pan) to
> send midi events to spiralsynthmodular, but cannot get them to work. I
> add in a midi widget, which controls note gating and pitch fine, but
> if I add an output for modulation wheel (for example) and connect a
> scope to it, no signal seems to be coming out.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

I think it's a bug... the ALSA-MIDI code isn't quite complete.

If you're using an external device, help is at hand though. If you
recompile a current version of SSM with:

      ./configure --disable-alsa-midi ; make

you can roll back to the old OSS-MIDI code which (I hope) does
work for controllers.

If you're trying to connect to some software device (that needs
ALSA MIDI) like a software-sequencer or something, then I'm
affraid there isn't much I can say to help you at this point.


Also have you remembered to connect the controller to SSM using
aconnect, or acconectgui, or one of the other ALSA-MIDI patching
programs. (i.e. ignoring controllers for a sec., do note-on and
note-off messages get through?)


Please note that development of SSM has unfortanately ground to
a halt. We had lots of ideas of how to update it into SSM-2, but
most of these ideas were already being implemented in om-synth.
So currently we're just focusing on converting the old SSM plugins
to LADSPA for use in om-synth (or other softsynths).

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/om-synth
http://www.nongnu.org/om-synth