Hi,

I am running Pd .46.2 on a Raspberry Pi. I have two Midi USB devices going into a hub, that then go into the Pi. they are the same devices, but operate on different midi channels, 1 and 2 respectively.

I am trying to use ctlin to get sensor data. from the two midi controllers and I am only getting it from 1. I formatted it like this: [ctlin 1 1] and [ctlin 2 1], only the object for channel 1 is working. Also, in midi settings I selected "use multiple devices" and selected /dev/midi2 and /dev/midi3 as my devices.

In the help file of ctlin I can see that it is recieving data on both midi channels, also when you look at [midiin] I can see the data. But for some reason it's not working when I specify the channel. Also, ctlout isn't working either, same issue.

I am using oss-midi.

Let me know what you think.

@nicnut I would expect [ctrlin 1 1] and ctrlin 1 2] to work??????
Check first that [ctrlin] will give you all of the data from both controllers......
David.

OK, thanks for your advice.

I used [ctlin] and was getting the data. From the 3rd outlet I was getting an 18, so for kicks I tried [ctlin 1 18] and that worked! weird right? I am 100% positive that device is on channel 2.

Is this some kind of weird setting or something? Let me know what you think. At least I can get midi data for now, but I would like to figure this out.

Hi,
first device channel 1-16
second device channel 17-32 ...
and so on, no bug here I think.

So ctlin will add 16 to midi channels in the order of lowest to highest? so if a third controller is on channel 3 it would be channel 33-48? I guess as long as I know what's going on it's OK. I'm coming from Max so I expected ctlin to behave the same way.