Cont. from http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1883-max-switch

Since we are moving out of the technical realm, I felt it wise to move the topic.

I am the only PD type at the organization. I feel that with some ramp up time the end product will be the same as long as I can write my own externals from time to time.

The question was asked what kind on company I am at. I work at a museum in Seattle creating interactive elements in the exhibits. I use PD as the control center to control MIDI hardware, video/audio, flash, director, vbscript, etc.

I am stuck with the move to Max but I think it will work out.

So, I use PD at work, but I am being forced to switch to MAX|MSP. What do I need to know to survive a switchover?

Thanks

This is really off topic but.....
My wife used to live in Sevilla and we are thinking about maybe heading back that way in a year or so. Anyway, wondering what the jazz funk band/electronic music/art installation scene is there. Most of my work is museum multimedia exhibitions/installation using flash/PD/etc. Trying to get a feel for what I might be getting into.
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I set up most of my patches with -mididevin 1 etc but would love to use the device name in case i put the patch on another computer and wanted it to always work right off the bat.

e.g -mididevin KorgM3

so that if the KorgM3 is the 1st in device on one setup and the 3rd device on another it won't matter a bit.

any ideas

So I have been using LoopBE1 on a project. Started a new project that is a little more intensive on the MIDI load. LoopBe1 bites it constantly.

Looking at MIDI Yoke and Maple Virtual MIDI Driver. Any experience with these or others.

What I am doing is getting a signal from a Beringher BCF2000 to PD. PD then send the input out on 4 channels through the virtual MIDI driver to Cubase to use as a generic remote.

There are 6 continuous controllers, 3 switches capable of send MIDI as cc's to PD. Also there are 4 other buttons that send 9 cc messages at once to PD.

Any suggestions for unbreakable (given that I do not have midi loops in the system) virtual MIDI drivers?

Thanks

I have an old laptop that is not being used. Currently a windows 2000 machine with Pentium 3 256mg ram.

I there a certain type of Linux that works best for A/V stuff. I plan to basically just run PD on it for now.

Any helpful hint on the Linux switch is also appreciated since I don't know anything about the platform.

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arrgghh.....

I wan to use [vst~] but haven't figured out how to load in the fxb effects bank file. There isn't a load bank on the vst gui.

Any ideas?
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First, does anyone have a working version of [midifile], I downloaded the .dll today and put it in the search path but PD couldn't create.

Second, even if it does eventually load will it do the following:

I need to take a standard MIDI file which plays notes on multiple channels, sends program changes, etc. and have PD read it and send the data to a MIDI hardware sound module for playback.

Is this possible with [midifile] or other object?

I thought about reading data to array's for sending, does this sound plausible?

Thanks for any ideas etc

In reference to the variable send post of earlier.....

I didn't know about send13 nor see it in the PD documentation/help etc. Is there a list of all the objects that ship in PD?

I am trying to receive info from a VBScript. If I am listening with [netreceive] on port 4000, wouldn't TCP messages sent to my computer's IP address port 4000 over the network be received by the [netreceive]? Does [netreceive] only work on the locally?

Any ideas?

I am using windows xp.

Thanks