Hi!!

I was wondering if there was some kind of compatibility list of midi controllers for PD

knobs and sliders will suffice.....

Or do most 'play nicely' ?

EDIT: And if anyone knows of one with an x/Y device, I am all ears....there don't seem to be many...i could be wrong

Thanks!!

@lovelovevideo Hello again.......... if your computer can talk to to the midi device then Pd will work fine. So the real question is "what usb midi devices will work with your computer".
The most future proof for you will be a usb soundcard with midi connectors, or just a usb midi card...... because then any and all midi devices will talk to it through standard 5-pin din connectors. But if a midi device will talk to your computer then it will talk to Pd.

That was a bit long winded... the question is...... "does my computer have the drivers available........ that work!........... for the device?....."

I don't use midi much nowadays as for control I use the "new midi" called osc. Pd works well with osc and you could try it if you have a tablet. I use this app http://hexler.net/software/touchosc which apart from being very reasonably priced and being available for ios and android (sounds like an advert!) will let you draw toggles buttons sliders and XY pads and more on your tablet.
Musicians still use midi for the notes (better timing) but are increasingly using osc for control....
It is far easier to understand than midi.
David.

@whale-av Thank you!! I am gonna buy it and try it out, it works with Renoise as well which I use for audio...I've been looking for a way to integrate my tablet into my experiments so this seems to be the perfect solution.

@whale-av any experience using touchOSC on a hosted/ad-hoc network?

I can get touchOSC and my laptop to communicate whilst they are both on the same wi-fi(internet) network..

The problem is want to use a hosted network(wlan) as for live performance you can't

depend on the internet.

So I have manually configured a hosted network on my laptop and my tablet can connect to it with no problem. TouchOSC can find TouchOSC Bridge etc.. The issue is my laptop is not receiving packets from my tablet.... I have tried with both Pure Data and Renoise..

The issue is not with touchOSC because when I try sending packets when my tablet and laptop are on the same wi-fi network it works fine..

So the problem is with the hosted network....

I have tried automatically configuring an ip, manually configuring one...to no avail

I am not sure if this matters, however, when use a normal internet connection, a default gateway is configured...with the wlan hosted network, none...I have also tried to manually configure that as well, I had no success with the one attempt....

I am sure there is some setting that I am unaware of that needs fixing..

Edit : Typing specs as we speak

Asus F550l
Windows 8 64 bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500 CPU @ 1.80 GHZ 2.40GHZ
3.89 usable RAM out of 4.0

The tablet is an ASUS ZENPAD(Android) ...ill write the specs later

If anyone else has any ideas/suggestions/experience I am all ears...thxx

@lovelovevideo
When you are at home the two are talking over the lan (local area network) and that will still work without an internet connection for the router. So the solution that I use is to carry a router with me. That doubles the possible range, and triples the data rate. I use Linksys WRT54G series because they are good, and cheap on ebay (usually less than £10.)

In Ad Hoc mode the Laptop is doing the "routing". The tablet is receiving broadcast packets from TouchOsc Bridge, and probably also from Pd. But the computer is blocking incoming packets.
It could be that you have told it to share its internet connection with the tablet, but that the firewall is blocking connections to the computer.. It is hard to know exactly what your problem is.

You could disable the firewall and try........
When you are in Ad Hoc between the two you could disable any HSPA/G3/G4 conection so that you are not connected to the internet..... so there is no virus danger unless you have one already. You should fix both IP addresses.... say 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3....... or to what they were on your home network. Then disable the firewall and try.
David

@whale-av yes, thanks as i know this is highly difficult to diagnose, I have been trying with the internet disabled as is...

and I have disabled the firewall completely(is that even possible??)

I did a diagnostic check for incoming connections and got this : NatAlePortFilter may be blocking the connection in the firewall....

That could indeed be something...however, i just ran the diagnostic again whilst using my normal internet connection and got the same message...and as I said, my laptop receives packets from touchOSC with no problem using wifi, and that is with my firewall at default settings...

So I am wondering if the firewall is really the problem

@lovelovevideo Can your tablet access anything else (files etc.) on the laptop?
There are some "ping" apps for android.... Can the tablet ping the laptop and vice versa?

I just tried between my laptop and phone and it worked straight away (win7)........ I know...... that doesn't help.

The default gateway is the base address of the router that is connected to the internet...... and you don't need the internet.

What are the ip addresses of the laptop and the tablet?
David.

@whale-av just wanted to update you and thank you for the advice....it prompted me to find another solution, even though I still want to find out why my laptop is not accepting packets..(via hosted network)

I tried to do a test using ShareLink, an rapid file transfer app....didn´t work...

Did some reading online and someone suggested setting up a hotspot on the android device.....

I tried and it worked, subsequently so did touchOSC..... it's the total opposite as the previous method, as it would seem that the tablet is hosting the connection in this case...

I am still gonna try to work out the hosted network method...