[chuck-users] Expanding MIDI support

Mario Buoninfante mario.buoninfante at gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 16:53:25 EDT 2019


Nice :)
MIDI clock works fine now (ChucK 1.4.0.0). There's a flag you can use to
activate it that I don't remember whether is ON or OFF by default, but
anyway is there.
Like I said there's a flag for SysEx as well, but that doesn't seem to do
much.

Cheers,
Mario

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 21:43, Michael Heuer <heuermh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd say go for it!  It would be nice to have proper SysEx and MIDI clock
> support in ChucK.
>
> I recall there was some progress on the latter; did I read somewhere that
> clock messages are available via RtMidi but simply disabled in ChucK for
> performance reasons?
>
>    michael
>
>
> > On Jul 2, 2019, at 3:23 PM, Mario Buoninfante <
> mario.buoninfante at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > One month ago I got started with an Open Source project whose goal is to
> support some hardware on various platforms/environments/programming
> languages (Pd, SC, Processing, Lua, Python, JS, etc.) and of course my goal
> is to have ChucK on board as well (hopefully I'll share more info about the
> project in the next months).
> > The only issue I've got at the moment is that I need to talk SysEx with
> these gears, and as you know ChucK doesn't deal with SysEx.
> > I really care a lot about this project, mainly because it's open source
> and because will involve different communities (Pd, SC, JS, etc.) and would
> really love to include ChucK in this since is the tool I'm mainly using to
> experiment and make music and I truly believe has got something more than
> other languages/environments.
> > Thus, since I'm not a C++ person, I decided I'll ask a colleague of mine
> (a C++ programmer) to help out with this, also because he'll get involved
> in the project for other reasons anyway.
> > But before doing this I wanted to ask the developers and all those who
> are involved in maintaining ChucK, if there's any particular reason why
> SysEx messages are not currently supported.
> > From what I can see in the code (and after running few experiments) with
> the current architecture SysEx messages could be sent out (3 bytes at time
> though) but with a lot of limitations (didn't manage to receive SysEx
> messages though).
> > Also, I think RtMidi doesn't gate us from doing that (there's just a
> flag used to 'turn on/off' SysEx communication).
> > But it seems like there's nothing in place that allows to deal with MIDI
> messages bigger than 3 bytes and, from a "non-C++ person", it seems one way
> to fix this could potentially be to add a SysExIn/SysExOut and a SysExMsg
> classes that deal with these kind of MIDI messages.
> > Of course there could be a lot of things I'm missing here, and that's
> why I'm asking you for some help, even before asking for other help :)
> > Just to make sure there's nothing that prevents people from adding this
> functionality.
> > Then, last but not the least, ChucK is an open source project and I love
> it. There are a lot of people working with it, and I was wondering whether
> or not this would be a feature people are after.
> > Basically I'd like to hear from the community before even getting
> started with this.
> >
> > I hope this makes sense. Looking forward to hearing from you guys :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mario
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