i'm trying to control midi with an Oxygen 8 usb midi keyboard (2 octaves of keys, and 8 programable control knobs). i can't seem to get pd to recognize it in the midi preferences menu, and [ctlin] and [notein] objects aren't picking up any signals. i'm running mac osx 10.5 and pd-extended 0.40.3.

if anyone could tell me how to get pd to recognize this usb keyboard i would greatly appreciate it.

-ben

I have an O2. In windows it just shows up as "USB Device", not as "O2". Same for you maybe?

in my system profiler the oxygen 8 comes up as "vendor-specific", in the pd midi preferences menu it doesn't show any options (only "none" for both input and output). i think this is a problem specifically with pd recognizing the oxygen 8 as a midi device. i've used the keyboard for years on this computer and others (with reason and live) so i know it's not a hardware problem.

is there a midi router program (prefer freeware) for mac that i can use to direct the keyboard's midi signal to pd? (like jack tools does for audio)

Hi,

Maybe take a look at "Audio and Midi Preferences" in the Utilities folder.

figured it out. just needed a new driver.