How to monitor raw MIDI datasteam

Reply to How to monitor raw MIDI datasteam on Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:21:52 GMT

campbellr — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:21:52 GMT

I am a new user of this great app.
I have an issue with a MIDI application and I need to monitor MIDI data which may be getting corrupted.
I tried connecting a midiin object to print.
It does monitor incoming MIDI data but it is not displaying all SysEx message bytes.

Does the midiin object filter certain MIDI bytes?

Is there a different (perhaps more general data object type) which would be able to simple display the 8-bit bytes received?

Thanks
Robert

Reply to How to monitor raw MIDI datasteam on Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:25:31 GMT

Balwyn — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:25:31 GMT

right click the midiin object for help
you will notice there is a sysexin object among the many others
Also the cyclone and ceammc libraries have midi objects both available through find externals under the Help menu.
I'm not sure how to actually access sysex data though

Reply to How to monitor raw MIDI datasteam on Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:12:11 GMT

jameslo — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:12:11 GMT

The vanilla objects can't capture the raw MIDI bytes, right? By the time they come out as outlet messages, the MIDI messages have already been parsed. For instance, many of the MIDI objects have to be filling in the running status or else the channel info would not be output.

Edit: Ooops, I'm wrong! Just read the help for [midiin]. Move along...nothing to see here....

Reply to How to monitor raw MIDI datasteam on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:18:53 GMT

Balwyn — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:18:53 GMT

if you check this thread https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/377/sysex/32, the last reply from @il pleut shows that a sysex message is a list of numbers that must start with 240 and end with 247.
bearing that in mind I temporarily set the midi output to the equivalent midi input and the result is below
note messages only went midiin
sysex and note messages went to both midiin and sysexin