Re: setting the input of many many many midi devices

On 11/28/05, michael markert <email@hidden > wrote:

Hi Alex,

I have the same problems, but there are two ways to make this a bit
easier:

- use the same MIDI-Hub (USB), so you just have to switch the USB-
Cable and all names stay the same

or:

- use virtual ports and a routing setup for each machine. Try "Midi
Pipe" or "Midi Patchbay". For example, you setup a virtual input port
"QC-In #1" and route your Device to QC-In #1. The QC-Patch should
always use this virtual port as input.
This way, you just have to create different "Virtual Patch Setups"
for each machine – no need to touch your QC-Compositions ever again!

Midi Pipe is very powerful but also a bit more complicated to handle
than Midi Patchbay.

Best regards,
Michael

Am 26.11.2005 um 17:52 schrieb Alexander Huber:

> hello everybody,
>
> i'm currently building a vj application that uses a lot of midi
> controllers and midi keys. i have two machines, an old slow
> powerbook and a dual g5 on which i develop the project.
>
> my problem is to keep the 'development branches' synchronized: the
> midi devices are not accessed via names (port A, IAC Bus1 etc...)
> and are 'forgotten' on the powermac when i load the composition
> previously developped on the powerbook, even when i plug in the
> same midi interface. so if i change a lot of midi stuff, i have to
> click through all the midi note/controller elements in my
> composition...
>
> the composition is tied to the hardware, even if i use the same
> hardware controller.
>
> i had one idea: keeping one composition that handles only midi in/
> output and which is machine-dependent, acting as a kind of
> 'interface' to the second composition which is machine-independent
> (and really only gets copied over to the other machine) whereas the
> 'connection' between the two comps is done via copy + paste (i open
> the second, machine-independent composition, and copy the patch
> with the controllers into it... i'm sure it would work, but then i
> had to do all the cabling stuff...)
>
> to sum it up: either i step through all midi note/controller
> elements and change the device setting, or i have this 'interface-
> acting composition' that gets pasted in the main development
> composition, which i then have to reconnect using lots of cables...
>
> how do you handle such a problem?
>
> i'm fairly new to qc (great tool!) and couldn't find any other
> solutions
>
> thank you very much for any input
>
> cheers
> alex
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