MIDI Out

[Lindon]

OK so general question - as I havent used the "make a MIDI plugin" features yet.

So I have a requirement to build a stand alone app that will control external devices thru a std USB MIDI port, so these days (I think) HISE can create MIDI sending plug-ins but can it also send its MIDI data to some external port? I know the stand alone can identify the inbound midi ports available - looking for outbound too I think.

It has to be a stand alone app - no DAW allowed

[Christoph Hart]

so these days (I think) HISE can create MIDI sending plug-ins

WRONG

But I remember I promised to add this at some point, so thanks for the reminder.

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart

But I remember I promised to add this at some point, so thanks for the reminder.

Oh I have a great idea for a plugin with this feature

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart can you add it to the stand-alone implementation too then please....."pretty please with sugar on top"?

[Christoph Hart]

The amount of sugar needed to make me write a virtual MIDI output will not be healthy

The problem is that it's trivial on macOS but impossible without actually writing a virtual device driver on Windows which hooks up to the software.

A more likely solution would be to connect to a MIDI input of a running software (or external MIDI loopback driver) which you want to send the messages too.

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart er -- yes I think, so (on windows) I'd start LoopBe1 (say) having declared some virtual midi port - and then start my HISE derived app and it would connect to this ? So in effect sending MIDI out the machine wiht out having to load some vst into some DAW yes?

[Dewdman42]

Has there been any progress on midi out from HISE? That is my only interest in HISE, and I am EXTREMELY interested in this. But its not clear to me if this can be done yet?

[d.healey]

@Dewdman42 Not yet. What's your plan when it's implemented?

[Dewdman42]

articulation management for all hosts. I've been hacking some stuff together with LogicPro scripter, but for various reasons I want to move on to something better. May just make it in JUCE directly, but something like HISE would be a lot easier for obvious reasons.

[d.healey]

@Dewdman42 Oh that's a cool idea!

[lalalandsynth]

@d-healey Friendly bump on this as we really need to to complete our plugin.
We are making a MIDI retrofit kit for vintage analog synths and we would like to ship it with an standalone app and plugin.
For this we need CC , midi note and Sysex.
We seem to have this working with the standalone but plugin not so much.

This would be amazing to have as a feature in HISE , not only for our kit but in general.