Piping MIDI between stacks

[Per Boysen]

Is there a trick to increase the available MIDI In ports for a stack?

I have already used up this stack's MIDI In and MIDI Remote inputs. And I need to pipe MIDI notes from sequencers on another stack into one of this stack's modules.

I remember in Numerology 1 there was this MIDI Module you could open to get at more inputs, but how are we to solve this in Numerology 2?

[jue]

Hello,

please have a look to the Input / Output section in the library below your AU-Plugins, there you can find modules for MIDI In and MIDI Out.
You can use them as often as needed.

best
jue

PS: Possible Jim puts the in/out and the misc modules before the AUs??

[Per Boysen]

Hey - I just realized how to do it! I created a bunch of empty stacks and set them to different inputs but to the same output MIDI Bus A and then I dragged a cable from input to output. What a handy workaround!!!! Should go into the manual ;-)

[Per Boysen]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, jue<> wrote:

> please have a look to the Input / Output section in the library below your AU-Plugins, there you can find modules for MIDI In and MIDI Out.
> You can use them as often as needed.


Thanks. But my problem is that there are only two slots to chose a
MIDI input and I now need to bring a third one into this stack.

[jue]

Hello,

do you have some IAC busses activated on your machine?

here is an example with 4 MIDI outs from Stack 1 to 4 MIDI ins in Stack 2,
This works here.

best
jue

[Per Boysen]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:03 PM, jue<> wrote:

> do you have some IAC busses activated on your machine?


Yes, I use two IAC busses. But the problem is not a too small number
of virtual MIDI channels, the problem is too few virtual MIDI In ports
in Numerology 2.

But I got around that issue by creating a bunch of extra stacks that
are all set to different MIDI In ports but merge their MIDI
through-put into the same Numerology MIDI Bus. That way you can expand
the number of MIDI In ports almost infinitely. So I'm already at the
next step by now....

Thanks for your concern :-)

[jim]

Question: what modules are you routing the stack's MIDI to? (your answer might give me ideas about tweaking the options for multi-MIDI-inputs to a stack).

Thanks,
Jim

[Per Boysen]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:07 PM, jim<> wrote:

> Question: what modules are you routing the stack's MIDI to? Â*(your answer might give me ideas about tweaking the options for multi-MIDI-inputs to a stack).



Directly into an AU plug-in/instrument; the Cross Fade Loop Synth FX
from Expert Sleepers. I'm using it as a real-time sampler and need to
feed it external MIDI to sample a slice of the live audio input and at
the same time feed it MIDI from Sequencer modules in other stacks.

But I managed to solve it by a bunch of empty stacks set to different
midi inputs but merging into the same midi bus for the Cross Fade Loop
Synth stack. And then I used Bidule AU plug-in to filter out certain
MIDI informations that Numerology's MIDI filtering was too thick to
handle. The Bidule plug-in is really useful with almost all audio
hosts I know of! Sort of the sound tweaker's Swiss army knife :-)

[jim]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Per Boysen<> wrote:

>
> Directly into an AU plug-in/instrument; the Cross Fade Loop Synth FX
> from Expert Sleepers. I'm using it as a real-time sampler and need to
> feed it external MIDI to sample a slice of the live audio input and at
> the same time feed it MIDI from Sequencer modules in other stacks.


Not to "beat a dead horse" here, but is there a specific reason that you felt you couldn't use the "MIDI In"
module? Remember that you can always merge MIDI streams just by routing them to the same destination.


> But I managed to solve it by a bunch of empty stacks set to different
> midi inputs but merging into the same midi bus for the Cross Fade Loop
> Synth stack. And then I used Bidule AU plug-in to filter out certain
> MIDI informations that Numerology's MIDI filtering was too thick to
> handle. The Bidule plug-in is really useful with almost all audio
> hosts I know of! Sort of the sound tweaker's Swiss army knife :-)


Can you be more specific about your filtering needs? That sort of
thing is typically easy to address....

Thanks much,
Jim

[Per Boysen]

SOLVED IT!

I just found the MIDI In module!

It is under the "Input/Output" tab. Didn't look there because I was busy and thought it could only be found under some of the "MIDI" tabs. Stupid mistake.

It amazes me that no one else spotted it?

[jue]

Hello,

in my post from Yesterday, 04:54 PM a little up there is a describtion were to find the module??
Is my english that as bad??

I was asking my self wether I was not understanding right what you want.

If my words are not to understand for you please let me know, that I can look for a better way of translation.

best
jue

[shamburglar]

I understood you perfectly... don't worry about it. I think this was more an issue with somebody reading than your writing. :D

[jim]

I see this as a UI design issue -- the MIDI i/o modules should be much easier to find....

Jim

[groozo]

How about put some color in the module library ?

1 for the note seq modules
1 for the CV Modules.
1 for the Audio Modules.
1 for the Audio Units modules.
1 for In/Out modules.
1 for Misc Modules.

just an idea,


Cheers,
Charles.

EDIT : I've just see this at the bottom of the forum's page .... Happy birthday Jim !