'Midi controller' software for sending midi CC?

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'Midi controller' software for sending midi CC?

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I was looking for some 'Midi controller' software. Something which would have sliders for sending Midi CC messages.

Here is two that I found:
http://www.equalarea.com/paul/xphat/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/midicontrol/

Unfortunately, both are pretty old, and did not compile 'right out from the box'. Suggesstions for others, or has someone built one of those lately?

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tavasti wrote:I was looking for some 'Midi controller' software. Something which would have sliders for sending Midi CC messages.

Here is two that I found:
http://www.equalarea.com/paul/xphat/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/midicontrol/

Unfortunately, both are pretty old, and did not compile 'right out from the box'. Suggesstions for others, or has someone built one of those lately?
Not quite what you're asking for, but I've done 'quick mock up' interfaces sending CC messages from Pure Data which was kind of nice.
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raboof wrote:
Not quite what you're asking for, but I've done 'quick mock up' interfaces sending CC messages from Pure Data which was kind of nice.[/quote]
Any quick instructions how to do that?

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tavasti wrote:Any quick instructions how to do that?
Hmm it's been a while, but probably a matter of attaching a couple of 'number' elements to a 'midiout' element. I vaguely remember the in-application midiout documentation page to be quite good.
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raboof wrote:
tavasti wrote:Any quick instructions how to do that?
Hmm it's been a while, but probably a matter of attaching a couple of 'number' elements to a 'midiout' element. I vaguely remember the in-application midiout documentation page to be quite good.
Ok, let's see of I have time some evening. Haven't used pure-data ever :-)

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Got this compiled. It wants to attach on /dev/midi* device. When looking with strace, it freezes forever on opening that file. And I would like to connect with software synth, which is not having any /dev/midi* file. Looks like this isn't going to help me.

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you probably need some OSS compatibility layer for /dev/midi.
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Can't a DAW of your choice (for example Ardour) send or receive MIDI CC data as well?
I don't know a 'Midi controller' program of my own, you've already mentioned them all. https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/midi_a ... controller

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Ardour can send midi CC with automation tracks. VMPK has an option for a midi CC knob too.
There are a couple of plugins that generate midi messages (including cc) https://github.com/x42/mididebug.lv2 and one I wrote https://github.com/ssj71/infamousPlugin ... /src/mindi

I'm not sure exactly what your use case is, but hopefully one of these will work for you.
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khz wrote:Can't a DAW of your choice (for example Ardour) send or receive MIDI CC data as well?
It can, using Mixbus. However, for adjusting 15 parameters with it online for demonstrating different things to myself is not that handy.

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they/them ta / libreav.org / wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Audio and related pages / gh

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I don't use it, but can non-mixer or maybe non-timeline send midi CC? that might be a nice modular way. Hopefully someone with experience can chime in.
milk wrote: https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/MIDI#So ... controller
ctrlr in that list is probably a good bet.
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ssj71 wrote:I don't use it, but can non-mixer or maybe non-timeline send midi CC? that might be a nice modular way. Hopefully someone with experience can chime in.
Mixer would be correct user interface, but I think that has only capability to receive midi messages. Timeline sure could send them, but UI is not any better than mixbus for this kind of use.

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forgot I had some listed under OSC

http://osc.ammd.net / https://github.com/jean-emmanuel/open-stage-control - html5/js based

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