Tarik

How do I prevent midi hogging of ALL ports on windows?

Windows has this annoying feature that a midi port can only be used by ONE application. I thought I got around this by using Bome Midi Translator, that will take an incoming midi signal and copy it to an additional virtual port.

But the moment I drop a CTLIN object in Max to try and catch that midi signal, it hogs ALL virtual ports, not just the one I need. My instance of Ableton Live is therefore still not able to receive any midi, from anywhere, until I close Max.

Is there a way to tell Max to ignore certain midi ports?

Is there a way to tell Windows to stop being so... windows?

How do I prevent midi hogging of ALL ports on windows?
Windows has this annoying feature that a midi port can only be used by ONE application. I thought I got around this by using Bome Midi Translator, that will take an incoming midi signal and copy it to an additional virtual port.

But the moment I drop a CTLIN object in Max to try and catch that midi signal, it hogs ALL virtual ports, not just the one I need.  My instance of Ableton Live is therefore still not able to receive any midi, from anywhere, until I close Max.

Is there a way to tell Max to ignore certain midi ports?
Is there a way to tell Windows to stop being so... windows?

thanks -!t

Hi all,
How do I prevent midi hogging of ALL ports on windows?
Windows has this annoying feature that a midi port can only be used by ONE ap

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Ok, that was easy... it's all there in the "midi preferences". Sorry if I wasted anyone's time with this one!

Prevent MIDI hogging of ALL ports on Windows?