I just realized my old (freeware) driver for Midi Over the network (LAN) isn't working anymore, it's been so long since I did anything that required the 2 MIDI cables I have connected over to my Scope box I hadn't noticed it before.
So, what tools are you guys using right now for this? (Ie, what are current free/commercial/open/shareware alternatives that are working well for you?)
MidiOverLAN
MidiOverLAN
Last edited by valis on Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: MidiOverLAN
I was thinking of VSL networking but then I figured why buy something which only works with their products. That is a walled garden. If you find something which works under Vista 64 bit let me know.
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Commercial
ipMidi - is vista compatible and I've had no problems, real easy to set up. I've not rigorously tested it for drop out but I've certainly not noticed anything awry. There's a mac os version also which is free. And the vista/xp/2000 version has a trial download for testing it out.
http://www.nerds.de/en/ipmidi.html
and
MidiOverLan cp (XP/Mac) - the direct link is musicLabs - http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm - I've not tried this application though but the interface looks nice
ipMidi - is vista compatible and I've had no problems, real easy to set up. I've not rigorously tested it for drop out but I've certainly not noticed anything awry. There's a mac os version also which is free. And the vista/xp/2000 version has a trial download for testing it out.
http://www.nerds.de/en/ipmidi.html
and
MidiOverLan cp (XP/Mac) - the direct link is musicLabs - http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm - I've not tried this application though but the interface looks nice
Re: MidiOverLAN
"Heaven is there where hell is and heaven is not on earth!"
Re: MidiOverLAN
In the past I had been using a simple set of command line tools for sending & recieving midi between 2 windows machines, after I involved myself in a thread here that discusses some Xp sp2 & sp3 policy changes it occured to me to check & see if those tools work. They do if I explicitly fiddle with internet security settings on each PC, but I'm more & more avoiding software that I rarely use that causes me to have to open up potential vulnerabilities on such a popular platform to exploit...
Also both of those products are cross platform (the link directly above is just an older version of MidiOverLan CP), the fact that ipMidi has the OSX client free and is cheaper means I may well check it out first. Or perhaps someday soon when I have time I'll grab demos of both and do some timing comparisons between them.
Also both of those products are cross platform (the link directly above is just an older version of MidiOverLan CP), the fact that ipMidi has the OSX client free and is cheaper means I may well check it out first. Or perhaps someday soon when I have time I'll grab demos of both and do some timing comparisons between them.
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Ah yes, the infamous listing of half-dead links...
Digging the current site out of google reveals only Linux & OSX code on the current site.
That page does have a nice overview of timing issues but on a gigabit network that isn't subject to heavy p2p traffic (ie, a large number of open highly latent tcp connections) I can't imagine jitter is as much of an issue as it once was.
Digging the current site out of google reveals only Linux & OSX code on the current site.
That page does have a nice overview of timing issues but on a gigabit network that isn't subject to heavy p2p traffic (ie, a large number of open highly latent tcp connections) I can't imagine jitter is as much of an issue as it once was.
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Div's MIDI Utilities, which has several executables that support the NETMidi protocol:
http://public.sreal.com:8000/~div/midi-utilities/
I should have googled that up earlier, the archive I had been using came from a zipfile named midi-utilities-for-windows-20030214.zip (feb 2003) and had an outdated web-link for a page that was no longer active. But in answering your question I located his new site in google, and on that site I now see midi-utilities-20060628.zip (june 2006). Will give that a go and see if his newer executables (most dated 2005 in the zipfile) show any difference.
Iirc you also need a loopback adapter for the netmidi executables to actually talk to your sequencer (they can only talk to an existing port)
I think at0m or alfonso originally told me about this toolbox (can't recall exactly who, but it was someone from the Adern dev/beta team during the 1.x days).
http://public.sreal.com:8000/~div/midi-utilities/
I should have googled that up earlier, the archive I had been using came from a zipfile named midi-utilities-for-windows-20030214.zip (feb 2003) and had an outdated web-link for a page that was no longer active. But in answering your question I located his new site in google, and on that site I now see midi-utilities-20060628.zip (june 2006). Will give that a go and see if his newer executables (most dated 2005 in the zipfile) show any difference.
Iirc you also need a loopback adapter for the netmidi executables to actually talk to your sequencer (they can only talk to an existing port)
I think at0m or alfonso originally told me about this toolbox (can't recall exactly who, but it was someone from the Adern dev/beta team during the 1.x days).
Re: MidiOverLAN
I would probably recommend one of the commercial entities mentioned in this thread to people who want to use midi over their network regularly and with ease. I use it only occasionally (when I want to exceed my hardware connections) and so the free option makes more sense. The package has some interesting tools for those who like to fiddle/experiment too...