Hi,

I am looking for a musician using MIDI gears (expander, keyboard, controllers etc...) for his/her production.

PM me please.

Would lìke to see new audio things from you but I only have a midi keyboard that use from time to time (Im a guitar man ;) )

Hi Tcheko,

it was my plan to use Morphos for Bars&Pipes.
I was able to install B&P, that was no problem, but using it was not really possible. It freezes to often. Now I'm still using my old Amiga 1240 for Midi.
(Works still very, very good)

I think that B&P for Midi is still the best, even after all this years.
I use it for the accompaignement for my arrangements for choirs.
(www.tommmaaktmuziek.nl)

Tom Overtoom

tommaaktmuziek.nl two m

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Alfred recently did a 2023 update AFAICT:

BarsnPipes 1.2 MorphOS 2023 update

Be aware that his Website is still pretty much stuck in the 2000s .... :)

Has anyone tried that BnP version? I did but had a lot of problems. Will try today with no hurry.

[ Editado por tolkien 04.01.2023 - 09:16 ]

Problems here too:

- Log error because Bars'n Pipes don't detect MIDI interface
- Slow graphic
- No sound
- Bugs

Thanks Papisaur.
I have tried again but as you say it is buggy.
I have reported it to Alfred. Sure he can fix it.

Hi there,

With the help of Alfred, I fixed a long standing bug in camdusbmidi.class (this class allows the use of an usb to MIDI DIN in/out interface) that hindered SysEx messages.

Those can be usefull for sample based instruments for example (uploading samples to MIDI instrument thru MIDI).

If anyone need it, feel free to get in touch via PM, I'll send a download link for the 'hotfix'.

Hope we'll see some tune someday coming out of Bars'n'Pipe MorphOS version!

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Nice news!

Yes, it will be fantastic if Bars'n Pipes worked fine on MorphOS!

The updated 1.3 release should fix some annoying bugs that went unnoticed in Alfred's initial update.

Anyone who wants to give it a try without actual MIDI H/W should have a look at tcheko's FrozenLiquid which allows MIDI playback without any physical MIDI enabled devices.

New version 1.3 available !


http://bnp.hansfaust.de/indexeng.html

I have a question: If we use the 68k lib that is included on latest BnP, taking advantage of Gameport to Midi connection, does this mean that it will work with all Midi compatible software on MorphOS (i.e. ScummVM) or this will be true only for BnP?

I have just ordered a MT32 Pi hat from Sweden (though still lacking the actual RPi3a) since I have confirmation that MT32 with USB to MIDI cable works on MorphOS but my USB ports/hubs are heavily populated and would like to take advantage of the SBLive Gameport connection.

What do you guys think?

@Cool_amigaN
Should work then let's give it a try.

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I am probably the one that has to respond to that question since I wrote most of the MIDI components of MorphOS.

USB is king. I don't plan adding support for SBLive MIDI port with camd.library V50+ for the time being.

Driver model from 68k era has been simply dropped. Context switching is no more a concern nowadays. This made sense with a 7Mhz CPU. Not anymore with a Ghz class CPU.

Adding support for CAMD v50+ for SBLive is perfectly possible nonetheless... I don't have the hardware for that (hidding behind some random excuse). If one is fool enough for diving in that rabbit hole :)

As a side note, camdusbmidi.class has been improved to support multiple MIDI interfaces (ie: up to 16 in/out DIN ports per USB device -> for ex: https://www.thomann.de/gb/miditech_midiface_16x16.htm). It also has been fixed for properly supporting SysEx messages.

Wouldn't that be perfect for running 16 MT32-Pi in parallel from a single USB port? :)

PS: Never tested 68k camd.library + old MIDI drivers. I don't know if this even works... You might also have some strange behaviour with AHI because MIDI and audio are handled in the very same interrupt... It also means that the AHI SBLive driver must be the 68k version with proper CAMD driver installed... Looks like a major clusterf*ck to me. Good luck nonethless!


[ Edited by Tcheko 20.02.2023 - 16:39 ]

Hmmm, well these details don't sound that positive to me and if I source that gameport-midi cable and won't be working properly, I won't have anyone else to pass it on, due to extremely low demand :/ I 'll look into further details but I am leaning towards to the usb-midi solution after your words. Will revert in next weeks after I receive the RPi3, the Pi Hat and rest of cables about how it went :)