Midi Routing Table

[TiUser]

Hi Folks,
with the advent of the 64bit Ti OS driver I've looked again into Cantabile Performers midi routing table feature.

- The "pass through" in a routing is quite confusing. From users point of view it is unnecessary - I can choose the same source multiple times in different routings...

- When I reorder midi routings via drag and drop "pass through" does not adjust, it still behaves in the order initially created.

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- the fall through effect is even worse when midi routings are targeting a multitimbral VSTi...

I've tried to manage split/zones in the routing table... the unrouted events fall through and reach the rack too... covering the intended split... or is there a simple way clipping the "pass through"...?

With a mutlitimbral VSTi the racks split/zone is insufficient, only solution left is using the racks midi filters - a quite intransparent way to set up...
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"pass through" might be fine inside racks but in the midi routing table it is quite confusing, especially when one tries to enable/disable separate routings in subsessions.

The problem I see is that pass through depends on the line context it appears but IMHO the routing table entry should be free of such a context.


- it's nice to have bank/patch changes with routings but it's annoying to type numbers all the time... there are several instrument definition formats to specify names with bank/patch. Cakewalk, Steinberg and some other apps support this with their file formats... you'll also find such definitions for several synths and instruments on the net - so it's not necessarily about typing an own definition file...

[bradr]

Interesting point. To be honest I can't remember the exact scenario for putting this in. But you're right, the problem stems from the fact that the MIDI routing entries are greedy - ie: they steal the event once they match. If that was changed so the routing table as a whole was made greedy (ie: the event is stolen if it matches any/multiple entries), then the pass through wouldn't be necessary.

I'll think about this...

[TiUser]

...curious what you'll consider changing...

[bradr]

I've been thinking about this more and actually removed the pass through setting and it seemed to work OK. However - I'm very reluctant about releasing this in a minor build as it will affect existing setups - so I've reverted it for the moment.

(btw: new build is coming but it's been held up while I rebuild one of the servers involved in the official build process).

[TiUser]

Thanks for looking into that.

I understand your hesitation to release this change.

Maybe it's not possible but maybe you can make this a start up option in the settings.ini, like activating the telnet server??

I apologize for that suggestion in advance, that's what users always come up with when they can't look inside a difficult topic - make it optionally...