Fixed Virtual Midi ports for PC?
I am looking into abandoning Apple and my mac pro and switch to Windows 7 PC. However, there is one neat feature in Mac OS X and that is IAC-Midi Port creation. What I don't like about Max virtual midi ports is, that they are not fixed, meaning they disappear when I close the patch or if the app crashes. Does anyone know of an elegant way to create fixed midi ports (without restriction of the number of ports) to route midi between applications in Win7? Is that possible with max itself?
So far I looked into these alternatives:
LoopBe 30:
http://nerds.de/en/loopbe30.html
inexpensive, but I really need more than 30 ports (I know it sounds stupid to some people, but that's the way it is ...)
LoopMidi and rtpMIDI
http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html
http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/rtpmidi.html
Seems to be free ware! Has anybody tried these and possibly knows how reliable and easy to set up they are?
MidiOverLan
http://www.musiclab.com/products/midioverlan/info.html
64 Ports, but pretty expensive for more than 2 PCs ...
Any hints?
loop.be is great you can use an in an out and not get midi feedback on same port.
i would just use loop midi. I own loop.be and it's better. but i use loop midi know since i have a comlicated midi setup and with loop midi you can name midi ports really nice. the only problem especially with ableton and control scripts is i have to use a seperate port for in and out. Two midi ports instead of one.
One other solution would be to buy bome midi tranlator you get virtual ports and can do midi and keystroke functions.
Boome Midi tranlator loop.be and midi tranlator work great. never have an issue. I use all 3 everday with ableton live.
How many virtual midi ports can be created with bome? When I buy it, can I use it on several PCs or do I have to buy multiple licenses?
I have bome on 2 computers no problem i would check site for offical stat. I believe you can have 4 virtual ports. This with loop midi is a power house.Im starting a music blog and gonna give instructions on some cool setups and things you can do with virtual midi ports and stuff. Ive got some cool advanced
midi control of ableton using virtual ports and creative thinking.
http://www.bome.com/bome/downloads/manuals/miditranslator_manual.pdf
I've got an evo mk461c and a Numark DJ2GO, the latter I'd like to configure first as a DAW-tool, mapping custom actions to the wheel, with modifiers and ... we'll see where it goes! I'm using Reaper, and (last post, 1/9/'16) after reading someone say "Are the controllers on two different ports ? Then it is no problem at all ...." I thought, "virtual midi ports!"
I've tried (and failed) in the past with wireless rtpmidi (with my iphone, before I got the controllers).
Now I've got MIDI LE on there (I think it's meant to allow MIDI traffic from iphone, via usb - I like the idea of turning off network devices on my final DAW build...), and I think it's installed LoopMIDI with it. I'm on windows 7 x64, I thought ok I'll need at least 2 ports, clicked add, and it went down. Couldn't kill the app, when I tried to terminate the process I got a BSOD re device power failure...
Just noticed I had CoolVMidi setup still as the default output device, and that there was an update available. Disabled (but downloaded the update FFR) and retried adding multiple vmidi ports in loopmidi
Is there a guide for simple simple config options anywhere, either for specifically loopmidi or maybe "they're" "not THAT different" (I know there's a plethora of apps,)
I'd like to start by having each physcial device attached to a different virtual midi port, and see how I can configure my devices in reaper for the first scenario (let's call it 'DAW Navigation / Management Master Profile') before I go into maybe an experiemental performance profile... oh the ideas! so many!!!