How to add more ports

[dscoyne]

I am still using my old favorite program, Jammer Pro, for developing arrangements. But I need more than 16 channels of MIDI. It has a page to select additional ports to allow additional MIDI channels. Is there a sound module or device that will allow me to set up additional ports in the software? Thanks.

[jancivil]

I would wager this is quite impossible, an intervention into a software with that *design* limitation.
When Vienna Ensemble Pro came out, late 2009 it was a big fugging deal because finally we have multiple MIDI ports inside of one instrument (as many as 48). Before that, Tascam Gigastudio provided for multiple ports, and that AFAIK is about it.

[donkey tugger]

Assuming this is Windows, then there's things like https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html (amongst others) which will allow you to use virtual ports.

[jancivil]

I imagine one can set something up in Plogue Bidule as well. It seems an excess of extra moving parts, as opposed to use something that's designed to support that big an arrangement in one go. Don't know why this "has a page to select additional ports"; for example Kontakt always had the 4 ports but it's only useful used as a standalone. I heard of something recently that opens that up for plugin use, but I would actually need it (vis a vis VE Pro I haven't that need) to have investigated it (or memorized what it is).

Gigastudio was a standalone you connected to a host, not a plugin, as well.

[whyterabbyt]

I am still using my old favorite program, Jammer Pro, for developing arrangements. But I need more than 16 channels of MIDI. It has a page to select additional ports to allow additional MIDI channels. Is there a sound module or device that will allow me to set up additional ports in the software? Thanks.

The ports are 'enabled' by hardware device drivers, so basically you'd need more MIDI output devices. Luckily that includes virtual hardware devices ie the kind of thing donkey tugger mentioned.