MIDI on Bela

[sensestage]

MIDI on Bela in sclang seems not to be working.
It may be an issue with the alsa backend not registering the MIDI devices properly.

[sensestage]

To see devices in SC:

MIDIIn.connectAll;

[sensestage]

Maybe a solution is reading in MIDI not via Alsa, but via the Bela MIDI implementation.

[miguel-negrao]

So, where exactly is the problem ? Is the kernel missing something ?

I can get MIDI from the bela ide using c++, I see the values coming in.

[giuliomoro]

for some reason, USB devices do not show up as MIDI sequencer devices with aconnect -io

workaround: http://forum.bela.io/d/168-using-alsa-midi-with-supercollider/11

[giuliomoro]

@sensestage you mentioned it would be nice to have a MIDI UGen so to avoid the overhead of sclang/scsynth communication for MIDI. If you could draft such a UGen, I could then add in the lower level MIDI stuff.

[giuliomoro]

Newer Bela images (end of 2017 onwards) have a newer kernel which supports MIDI devices fine as far as I can tell. A basic MIDI example would be nice to add, anyone?