Purpose of midibridge port into midibridge ?

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Purpose of midibridge port into midibridge ? May 23, 2014 11:33:07 GMT

Post by crony on May 23, 2014 11:33:07 GMT

Hello Nic,

Something I want to clarify in my (little) head :
I've got lots of connexions between lots of apps and an external midi interface (4in / 4 out) but I never used the in nor out of "midibridge" connection.
I don't get it what it the purpose of it. There's nothing in, no app, no midi, and why would I want to plug something in the out ?

Told you, dumb question...
Thanks for your support !

nic
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Purpose of midibridge port into midibridge ? May 23, 2014 12:39:32 GMT

Post by nic on May 23, 2014 12:39:32 GMT

It's basically a MIDI thru. It can be used to drive apps like GarageBand from apps that have no virtual out of their own (or it is broken), but have the ability to send to another app's MIDI in.

iMini would be an example where you would select MidiBridge in iMini as the MIDI destination, connect MidiBridge in to out in MidiBridge and then other apps would see the iMini events on the MidiBridge virtual port.

Another use of the MidiBridge virtual ports is to interconnect non-CoreMIDI devices that MidiBridge supports (ie. Akai SS25, Line 6 Midi Mobilizer I) to/from CoreMIDI

Regards, Nic.

Last Edit: May 23, 2014 14:30:21 GMT by nic

crony Oracle Posts: 55	Purpose of midibridge port into midibridge ? May 23, 2014 21:56:08 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by crony on May 23, 2014 21:56:08 GMT Hmm, I see...And what if there's no in port, but only an out port ? This is the case for Launchkey from Novation. I guess I know the answer, but just to make sure...

Purpose of midibridge port into midibridge ?

Post by crony on May 23, 2014 11:33:07 GMT

Post by nic on May 23, 2014 12:39:32 GMT

Post by crony on May 23, 2014 21:56:08 GMT