Hey,

I have used PD for a while but recently erased my hard drive and reinstalled my operating system, consequentially having to reinstall PD. Since doing so, I have been working on a patch and whenever I tried to go into "MIDI Settings..." PD completely closes, without warning/saving etc.

Is this a bur or am I just doing something stupid? Would appreciate anyones help.

Thanks,
J

Anyone?

maybe a bit more info could help (os, midiinterface, ...)

Same problem here.
I run PD extended on Lion 10.7.2, with focusrite scarlett 8i6 interface and novation remote sl 49 compact midi keyboard.
When I go to the `midi settings` menu pd quits without any warnings, and no midi in in patches...
HELP!!!

hey,

i'm having the same problem. i'm running mountain lion, pd vanilla and a novation x-station which serves as an all in one audio interface/MIDI controller - i have it a couple of years now and so far everything fine.

pd crashes whenever i try to open the MIDI preferences, but only if i have the x-station connected to it. if i disconnect it, open pd and then connect the x-station, pd does not see it anymore until i restart it again. i've read in the FLOSS manual that i should have the audio midi setup app open when trying to configure the midi device in pd. tried that too but didn't work.

any ideas what could be the issue?
thanks,
k

Hey! Am I too late to help?

I'm having a similar situation, and it seems to be cause by the Novation Xiosynth.

All my other MIDI devices work (well, I only have 2 others - a Korg nanoKontrol, and a Behringer BCR2000), and Xiosynth shows up in other programs just fine. But whenever the Xiosynth is plugged in to the USB port, PD can't open its MIDI dialogs.

Xiosynth WILL show up as an output option under "audio settings," but PD just crashes when I try to open MIDI settings.

So, on my OS 10.5.8, I deleted the following files, from my Users/"my_name"/Library/Preferences:
org.puredata.pdextended.pd-gui.plist
org.puredata.pdextended.plist
org.puredata.pd.wish.plist

it MAY be that only the last one needed deleting. In fact, to be safe, I've just been moving them into holder folders, in case I need to put them back - I don't know what does what, so I'm being cautious.

Strange: XioSynth worked with my Ubuntu PD without issue (probably an older build?), and XioSynth works on other programs on this Mac. But it crashes PD so hard-core that I need to delete those working files.