[PlanetCCRMA] Re: common music on fc8?

[joakim@verona.se]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:

Since midi didnt work very well, I tried looking at using OSC, but it
doesn seem to work either, at least in sbcl.

Am I missing some package or what?

> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 20:45 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 20:03 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:22 +0100, joakim@verona.se wrote:
>> > > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>> > > 
>> > > > On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 19:15 +0100, joakim@verona.se wrote:
>> > > >> Hello,
>> > > >> 
>> > > >> I've so far been running fc7 rpm:s on an fc8 install.
>> > > >> However, it seems this is not possible with common music, due to a
>> > > >> newer sbcl in fc8. Furthermore, the fc8 rebuild of ccrma hasnt
>> > > >> progressed to cm yet.
>> > > >> 
>> > > >> Is this correct? Or can I make cm somehow work anyway?
>> > > >
>> > > > Not really. The version of sbcl on f8 is higher than in f7 and cm needs
>> > > > to be rebuilt. I have pretty much everything compiled including cm, but
>> > > > I have to do some testing which will happen tomorrow. Be patient for one
>> > > > more day...
>> > > 
>> > > Thanks for the new fc8 packages!
>> > > 
>> > > I'm having trouble to get this simple example working though:
>> > > 
>> > > (pm:terminate)
>> > > (pm:initialize)
>> > > (pprint (pm:getdeviceinfo))
>> > > 
>> > > (defparameter *pm-vkeybd* (portmidi-open :input "Virtual Keyboard"
>> > > :output "VirMIDI 1-0" :latency 0))
>> > > 
>> > > (defun midireceiver (mm ms)
>> > >   (pprint mm))
>> > > 
>> > >   (set-receiver! #'midireceiver *pm-vkeybd*)
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > I get:
>> > > 
>> > > set-receiver!: #<portmidi-stream "midi-port.pm"> does not support
>> > > :receive-type :PERIODIC.
>> > > 
>> > > Google reports similar problems here:
>> > > 
>> > > http://www.nabble.com/Receiving-from-portmidi-t3666956.html> > > 
>> > > So I guess my basic question is if anybody got this working at all?
>> > 
>> > Strange, I could have sworn this was working a while ago. I'm getting
>> > the same error on tests I'm doing in fc7. It does not look like
>> > *receive-methods* is being initialized at all (in io.lisp or io.scm), if
>> > that is not initialized all attempts to set a receiver will fail. 
>> 
>> rts is working for midi output, however input does not (in my tests). I
>> would not be surprised if we learn it has never worked :-) Probably a
>> question for the cmdist list (current svn does not seem to be different
>> with regards to io.lisp). 
>
> I reignited an old thread in the cmdist mailing list that was about this
> same issue. Rick will take a look when he gets a chance (I tested
> yesterday with current cm svn and the latest portmidi and rts
> tarballs). 
>
> -- Fernando

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Joakim Verona