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MIDI Channel. Bug or feature ?

Archive · 2005 3 old posts

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unkargherth ·

Hi all I get my way to my own Poor's man MIDI monitor and started to watch what comes in from MIDI input

Waht surprised me is the fact that playing notes from PC Keyboard OR from a external MIDI keyboard ( in fact i supose that we could include here any external hardware able to generate MINI Note ON/Off messages, but this has not been tested ) SM Always shows it as coming from Channel 0 ( what means ALL channels i supose). Here is the picture and below a link to test schematic

Test Schematic

Is this a bug, an unfinished feature ( i mean, will be in the future SM support channel select?), or is the standard way that SM is going to treat MIDI?

Sk ·

I'm not a dev, but I think it is the way SM handles MIDI commands. It makes no channel difference, since it's not meant to manage multi-tracks input. And yes, you can connect anything. You need to install the MPU-401 (available in most Windows setups) to use it as an interface for keyboards, controllers and/or modules.

malc ·

Hi unkargherth,

It is an unfinished feature. At the moment the MIDI channel is hard-coded to zero. MIDI messages are processed regardless of the channel you're sending them on. We'll have components that can filter based on channel at some point.

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