[PlanetCCRMA] Re: common music on fc8?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 20:50 +0100, joakim@verona.se wrote:
> 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.

Nope, it is all part of the cm package, I think. Come to think about it
I don't really know, I would have to take a look to see if it needs some
special compile time option to be active (I suppose not).

Hopefully Rick will get to the midi part this weekend. 

-- Fernando

> > 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
>