[LAU] Re: MIDI routing in Ardour

Le 10/10/2025 à 14:45, Fons Adriaensen a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:16:01PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
>   
>> Have you used the Channel Selector Dialog, and set it to "Use a single fixed
>> channel for all playback"?
> Ha, that solved it, many thanks. Had to search a bit before I found
> this in the track header menu.
>
>> Do you mean the dropdown in the track-header itself? That is a MIDNAM
>> channel Display (check the tooltip).
>   
> What is MIDNAM ? Lookup it up in the manual, it talks about 'patches',
> a 'model' and files in ~/.config. But I still have no idea what it is
> all about ...
>
> Ciao,
>

Hi Fons.

MIDNAM is an XML midi instrument definition scheme.

The official specs used to be on the midi.org site, but they seem to be 
gone now.

Some software can use MIDNAM files to define instruments that they can use.

I think Ardour can use them.


An important reason why full-featured software needs to have MIDNAM

  support is because certain drum or percussive plugins use MIDNAM to

  define note names.

For example, AVL Drums and other drum plugins:

The plugins need a way to tell the host the names of each of the drum notes.

MIDNAM is the only mechanism by which to do that.


MusE supports MIDNAM only in that respect.


I read that the Ardour team scoured the net for MIDNAM files

  and found that many of them were full of errors or not created properly.

So the team fixed a lot of them.


Tim.

MusE sequencer project.
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