16 Mar
2016
16 Mar
'16
2:26 a.m.
Hello!
Some LV2 plugins seem to now the MIDI channel # of the track on which
they are inserted, and some don't.
If I had to guess I'd say that nobody knows, only some plugins can
receive data from several MIDI channels, and some only work with one, so
they never mistake ; Am I right?
Last year I made a GUI around so-404 to learn about LV2 (and C, C++, DSP
code, etc. :)) ; And it has the same problem, just sightly different:
Worse: It starts numbering at 0, so if it's inserted on a track w/ MIDI
#4, you have to select 3
Better: It remembers said channel # on session reload (ZynAddSubFx
doesn't. Yoshimi does)
Can somebody point me towards the light? I'd like my plugin to only
listen to one channel: The one of the host track it's inserted into.
yPhil
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16 Mar
16 Mar
2:36 a.m.
Sorry I forgot the link to my code :/
https://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur/kis
On 03/16/2016 01:26 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
Hello!
Some LV2 plugins seem to now the MIDI channel # of the track on which
they are inserted, and some don't.
If I had to guess I'd say that nobody knows, only some plugins can
receive data from several MIDI channels, and some only work with one,
so they never mistake ; Am I right?
Last year I made a GUI around so-404 to learn about LV2 (and C, C++,
DSP code, etc. :)) ; And it has the same problem, just sightly different:
Worse: It starts numbering at 0, so if it's inserted on a track w/
MIDI #4, you have to select 3
Better: It remembers said channel # on session reload (ZynAddSubFx
doesn't. Yoshimi does)
Can somebody point me towards the light? I'd like my plugin to only
listen to one channel: The one of the host track it's inserted into.
yPhil
--
Philippe "xaccrocheur" Yassin
http://manyrecords.com
http://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur / https://github.com/xaccrocheur
2:37 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Yassin Philip <philcm(a)gnu.org> wrote:
Hello!
Some LV2 plugins seem to now the MIDI channel # of the track on which they
are inserted, and some don't.
There is no such concept in LV2.
The idea of a track "having" "a" MIDI channel is entirely host
specific and
isn't covered by any part of LV2 that i'm aware of.
If I had to guess I'd say that nobody knows, only
some plugins can receive
data from several MIDI channels, and some only work with one, so they never
mistake ; Am I right?
As with all other plugin APIs, yes.
Last year I made a GUI around so-404 to learn about LV2 (and C, C++, DSP
code, etc. :)) ; And it has the same problem, just sightly different:
Worse: It starts numbering at 0, so if it's inserted on a track w/ MIDI
#4, you have to select 3
Better: It remembers said channel # on session reload (ZynAddSubFx
doesn't. Yoshimi does)
MIDI channel numbering has always been a problem. Ardour has an option so
that the user can decide if MIDI channels start at zero or 1.
Can somebody point me towards the light? I'd like my plugin to only listen
to one channel: The one of the host track it's inserted into.
Given that there is no such thing, there's nothing you can do inside a
plugin to make it do this precise thing. You could make it listen to just
one MIDI channel, but that's not the same thing.
2:45 a.m.
Can somebody point me towards the light? I'd like my plugin to
only listen to one channel: The one of the host track it's
inserted into.
Given that there is no such thing, there's nothing you can do inside a
plugin to make it do this precise thing. You could make it listen to
just one MIDI channel, but that's not the same thing.
But... How do other plugins do? Thanks for your quick answer BTW ; Say,
Calf MonoSynth, it always listen to "the right" channel, as far as I
know there isn't even a channel number select control in the UI..? So
what is it doing that I should do too?
yPhil
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3:03 a.m.
On 03/16/2016 01:49 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
On 03/16/2016 02:45 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
I meant, how do they do that? I suppose it's in the LV2
ttl file
<https://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur/kis/src/2d12ab34ff10c67a0f99fa562fa50560f19454a3/kis.ttl?fileviewer=file-view-default>,
I'd like to know where to look in the LV2 docs, but I somehow confuse
terms, port index, channel number..?
But... How do other plugins do?
most
listen to all channels.
2c,
robin
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3:11 a.m.
MIDI Channel number is part of a MIDI message. There are 16 possible
channels on a given MIDI port. You look at the channel number inside each
(channel) message (Note on, Note off, CC message mostly).
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Yassin Philip <philcm(a)gnu.org> wrote:
On 03/16/2016 01:49 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
On 03/16/2016 02:45 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
But... How do other plugins do?
most listen to all channels.
I meant, how do they do that? I suppose it's in the LV2 ttl file
<https://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur/kis/src/2d12ab34ff10c67a0f99fa562fa50560f19454a3/kis.ttl?fileviewer=file-view-default>,
I'd like to know where to look in the LV2 docs, but I somehow confuse
terms, port index, channel number..?
2c,
robin
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3:37 a.m.
On Tue, March 15, 2016 7:03 pm, Yassin Philip wrote:
On 03/16/2016 01:49 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
Are you kidding? MIDI is a single data stream... two wires to form the
circuit. Channels are just different data. So the plugin receives 16
channels (if it wants them or not). The plugin has to filter the data to
get the channel(s) it wants to play with. The plugin can decide to deal
with only one channel and throw the rest of the data away, or it can
assign each channel to do different things such as a different sound for
each channel. I suppose a plugin could be made that treated all 16
channels as if they were the same, but most people would call that broken.
On the other hand, the controlling keyboard can decide to only send one
channel (Like my DX7 BTW) or more than one. Keyboards with auto
accompaniment would use other channels for drums, bass and chording and
leave the keyboard input it's own channel or channels. A single keyboard
might split the keyboard to send potions of the keyboard with different
channel data.... but in the end it all goes over the same wire.
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On 03/16/2016 02:45 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
I meant, how do they do that? I suppose it's in the LV2
ttl file
<https://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur/kis/src/2d12ab34ff10c67a0f99fa562fa50560f19454a3/kis.ttl?fileviewer=file-view-default>,
I'd like to know where to look in the LV2 docs, but I somehow confuse
terms, port index, channel number..? But... How do other plugins do?
most
listen to all channels. 
4:03 a.m.
On 03/16/2016 03:03 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
On 03/16/2016 01:49 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
a lv2:InputPort, ev:EventPort;
uhm. Event Ports have been deprecated since years and were pronounced
End of Live over 2 years ago:
http://lists.lv2plug.in/pipermail/devel-lv2plug.in/2014-January/000642.html
Please have a look at http://lv2plug.in/book/
HTH,
robin
On 03/16/2016 02:45 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
I meant, how do they do that? I suppose it's in the LV2
ttl file
<https://bitbucket.org/xaccrocheur/kis/src/2d12ab34ff10c67a0f99fa562fa50560f19454a3/kis.ttl?fileviewer=file-view-default>,
I'd like to know where to look in the LV2 docs, but I somehow confuse
terms, port index, channel number..? But... How do other plugins do?
most
listen to all channels. 
12:10 p.m.
Am 16.03.2016 um 04:03 schrieb Robin Gareus:
Please have a look at http://lv2plug.in/book/
And maybe some MIDI basics will help too:
http://www.somascape.org/midi/tech/spec.html
http://www.blitter.com/~russtopia/MIDI/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm
Chris
9:55 a.m.
On 2016-03-16 02:03, Yassin Philip wrote:
On 03/16/2016 01:49 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
by listening to all channels Robin meant they *ignore* midi channel
number altogether aka. omni mode.
that is to say, they respond to all midi channel messages the same way.
most probably you're facing a mono-timbral/single instrument plugin.
otoh. multi-timbral instruments *do* discriminate midi channel messages
by assigning one instrument patch/synth per
midi channel address and often they present a pool of 16 slots per midi
input port.
the lv2 spec has nothing to do with this, so don't look there for
clues--it's all genuine midi implementation related and applies to all
midi sound generator modules, hardware or software.
hth.
cheers
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On 03/16/2016 02:45 AM, Yassin Philip wrote:
I meant, how do they do that? I suppose it's in
the LV2 ttl file [5],
I'd like to know where to look in the LV2 docs, but I somehow confuse
terms, port index, channel number..?
But... How do other plugins do?
most listen to all channels.
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