Kenneth Newby

I'd like to create my own virtual MIDI ports in Max to avoid naming issues with IAC busses, portability, etc. I need both output and input ports in order to be able to have Max record it's own MIDI output. This works fine with IAC busses by simply setting midiout and midiin to the same named bus. The virtual ports that are created by Max, however, don't seem to echo output to input. Am I missing something?, or is this a limitation in the design of virtual ports in Max?

Hello community,
I'd like to create my own virtual MIDI ports in Max to avoid naming issues with IAC busses, portability, etc. I need both o

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In contrast to IAC busses the virtual ports of Max are designed for one-way communication to and from other applications/devices. It's not a specific limitation of Max but common behaviour of virtual ports created from applications.

Pity. It makes sense to have separate input and output ports to optimize traffic, but it still makes sense to have an input see whats being sent on an output of the same name. Oh well, back to IAC world.

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