Does wine handle virtual midi ports correct on OSX?

[Emmanuel Maillard]

Le 25 mai 09 à 20:54, Steve Schow a écrit :

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> it seems like what happens is that i select an IAC or virtual midi  
> port from
> some windows host inside Wine and everything looks ok, but no events  
> are
> sent.   Nothing.  But sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.   
> Once it
> is working it works fine.  Sometimes I have started it up and it was  
> not
> working, then I forgot that i had set it up and 5-10 minutes later  
> suddenly
> it would start sending the data across.
>
> Seems like somehow the windows host was not flushing the buffer or
> something.  I had this problem with Reaper and the latest version of  
> Reaper
> seems to be working ok, so maybe this was a Reaper problem, not wine.

How does it work on linux ? Did you take a look to AppDB ?

> I didn't see that fixme you  mentioned.  Where can I find that?  I'm
> actually using CrossOverGames for this, I was never able to get Wine  
> to work
> with JackOSX.
>
>
> Emmanuel Maillard-3 wrote:
>>
>> Does notes play well when playing ?
>> Correct duration, correct tempo or other kind of timing issue ?
>>
>> Have you see fixme about MOD_MIDIPORT in log  ?
>>
>> Emmanuel
>>
>> Le 25 mai 09 à 17:59, Steve Schow a écrit :
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>>>
>>> Thanks for responding.  I'm just sending midi notes around, no  
>>> sysex.
>>> Sometimes the ports work and sometimes they don't.  I may be finding
>>> that
>>> the problem is more related to Reaper bugs, I'm not sure yet.  Seems
>>> like it
>>> will not work and then sometimes after a few minutes, it will
>>> suddenly start
>>> working.  Seems possibly related to flushing, but I'm not sure.
>>>
>>> I'm not a wine developer, so I will just note your comments about
>>> MIDIClientCreate and keep testing from my end.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Emmanuel Maillard-3 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the late answer.
>>>> The MIDI driver is very rudimentary : (by memory) it doesn't handle
>>>> SysEx, doesn't handle notification from MIDIServer,
>>>> and poorly tested : just testing by reading few MIDI files, and few
>>>> In/
>>>> Out tests with 2 virtuals application.
>>>>
>>>> I think you first need is to add MIDINotifyProc, in  
>>>> MIDIClientCreate
>>>> to track your MIDI setup changes.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Emmanuel
>>>>
>>>> Le 7 mai 09 à 06:20, Dewdman42 a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know if Darwine can be fixed to handle virtual midi
>>>>> ports
>>>>> correctly?  They work very sporadically right now.  It seems to be
>>>>> related
>>>>> to getting the ports flushed or initialized or something.  When
>>>>> there is a
>>>>> virtual midi port present (under OSX), Wine seems to see it and
>>>>> lists it as
>>>>> an available midi port, but I have not been able to consistently  
>>>>> get
>>>>> that
>>>>> port to function correctly.  Sometimes it does and sometimes it
>>>>> doesn't and
>>>>> it seems to related to switching it on and off in some fashion  
>>>>> makes
>>>>> it
>>>>> work, though I can't seem to find a pattern that will work
>>>>> consistently.
>>>>>
>>>>> All I can figure is that somehow Wine is not handling midi ports  
>>>>> in
>>>>> a way
>>>>> that is compatible with OSX virtual midi ports.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any experience or knowledge in this area?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
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