Greetings: This is a precaffeinated message. You have been warned. I own a Yamaha MJC8 MIDI patch bay. It's very nice, but alas, it does nothing more than route connections. I would have preferred a programmable patch bay. Such devices included many amenities for the MIDI user, including channel control, scene memory, autoscanning hardware, etc. Personally, I'd like to see such features in a software MIDI patch bay. I'd also like to see something like a software MEP4 (a MIDI event processor box), but again its features could be incorporated into a programmable patch bay. At this time, it's either all or nothing with MIDI channels. Very frustrating when I want to use my TX802 on Ch 1, *only* Qsynth's drums on Ch 10, and ZynAddSubFX on Ch 5. The synths do in fact include their own channel selector, but the 802 is multitimbral and I often leave it in an 8-channel (8 instruments) configuration. So if I have a connection scene that includes Qsynth and the 802, everything on those eight channels gets played by Qsynth, but I don't want that to happen. So, can it be done ? I tried using holborn's SoundFontCombi but couldn't get it to keep the settings I made. Every time I started playing a sequence it would flip back to its original state. Sigh... Best, dp Frank Barknecht wrote: >Hallo, >Mark Knecht hat gesagt: // Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >>Wouldn't it be a nice feature in kaconnnect or qjackctl to one day add >>MIDI filtering? >> >> > >There are various ways to do midi filtering already. Matthias Nagorni >wrote a tool for that whose name I don't remember currently, and it's >very easy to create even complex filtering rules in Pd/jMax. > >Personally I don't think this belongs into a patch bay. > >ciao > >
