Testing needed: Out-of-the box MIDI support

[jean-emmanuel]

Hi everyone !

Installing the requirements for MIDI support in Open Stage Control has always been a major difficulty for many users, especially Windows and Mac users. I’m considering packaging the midi extension with Open Stage Control to make it work out-the-box, but before that I need to make sure it actually works.

Supported platforms are

• Linux 64bit
• Windows 64bit
• Mac OSX 64bit

Other systems (32bit systems, raspberries, etc) will still rely on the current installation process.

Testing is very simple

• download and try Open Stage Control v1.7.0-beta3
• make sure your midi config does not contain a path= parameter.
• do some midi stuff, like listing midi devices, sending messages…

This version comes with a built-in executable that will be used instead of your local version of python and python-rtmidi, it’s supposed to work when none of them are installed.

Let me know if it works :), otherwise please provide some details to help debugging: what’s your operating system, what’s the error, when does it happen, etc.

[matcham]

That would be such a great improvement !!!

I spent sooooo much time trying to install python on windows and macOS just to have working MIDI in O-S-C
(I finally managed to make it work... but it has been really a pain-in-the-* ! I don't even remember all the steps I went through, all I can say is it was not straightforward at all )

I've just tested the executable on windows : works fine here (windows 10 64bits)

On my Mac (macOs 10.15.7) I have this error message :

(ERROR, MIDI) spawn /Users/mathieuchamagne/Dropbox/OpenStageControl/osc-midi/osc-midi-osx EACCES

what does it mean ?

[jean-emmanuel]

Thanks for testing :). The error on Mac is a permission error, you’ll need to mark it manually as an executable to make it work:

chmod u+x path/to/osc-midi-osx

Hopefully this shouldn’t be necessary when packaged in the distributed .app file.

Edit: the executables are now zipped and should come with the appropriate permissions.

[matcham]

@jean-emmanuel

The error on Mac is a permission error, you’ll need to mark it manually as an executable to make it work:

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chmod u+x path/to/osc-midi-osx

I though it could be something like that... I did tried

xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /Users/mathieuchamagne/Dropbox/OpenStageControl/osc-midi

but it didn't worked. (it's the recipe I use to apply for unsigned Max externals ...)

thanks

[love770]

You are a blessing!

If I’m reading your post correctly, you are basically going to eliminate all the installation process?

OMG! I literally wanted to make a video to explain the installation for windows. I think I will test this first. After all, we want people to have a user-friendly experience instead of having difficulties and a bunch of tutorials explaining how to overcome challenges

[abstrus]

@jean-emmanuel is further testing on windows needed here, then i will try it too.

[jean-emmanuel]

Yes please more tests

[zoltan]

Cool add-on

I have this error in the log after replacing my midi set up :
(ERROR, MIDI) Could not find python binary: path/to/osc-midi-you-extracted

edit I tried to reinstall and in fact I get this :
["log", "(ERROR, MIDI) Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"midi.py\", line 244, in <module>\n File \"json/__init__.py\", line 348, in loads\n File \"json/decoder.py\", line 337, in decode\n File \"json/decoder.py\", line 355, in raw_decode\njson.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)\n"]

Pasglop

[jean-emmanuel]

@zoltan

(ERROR, MIDI) Could not find python binary: path/to/osc-midi-you-extracted

You have to replace path/to/etc with the actual path to the extracted file on your system.

edit I tried to reinstall and in fact I get this:

Can you please provide more informations: what's your system exactly, when does the error happen.

[zoltan]

My current config is OSX 10.14.6 Mojave, MacBook Pro mi-2012
Processor : 2.6ghz intel core i7
16 go DDR3 memory

So I download the file, and open it with the terminal, then press enter and have this result :

[jean-emmanuel]

Ok the executable is fine then, you’re not supposed to run it this way, but just to put path=/Users/cz/Desktop/osc-midi-osx in O-S-C’s midi config

[Greenman]

Bonsoir Jean-Emmanuel,

J’ai extrait dans le dossier comme indiqué sur ma capture d’écran.

le fichier est bien exécutable pour l’utilisateur.

Mais erreur.

[jean-emmanuel]

Il te manque la fin du chemin vers le fichier, tu n’as indiqué que le chemin vers le dossier qui le contient.

[Greenman]

yep ! ça marche donc sous Ubuntu 18.04.

path=path/to/osc-midi-you-extracted/osc-midi-linux serait peut-être mieux alors dans ton premier post.

Avant dans cette ligne, j’avais un truc du genre ``foo:1,2`, il faut le mettre où désormais ? A la suite ?

[Greenman]

c’est bon j’ai retrouvé il faut mettre des espaces

J’essaierai sous windows 10 très prochainement sur des postes vierges.
a+

[zoltan]

ok work fine :
path=/Users/cz/Desktop/osc-midi-osx virtual_midi:0,0

[jean-emmanuel]

I’m taking the liberty to ping all active users, In case some would be interested in helping with the tests. @trust_level_1

[abstrus]

Hi @jean-emmanuel i gave this a shot on Windows x64 2004 seems to work. (wasn’t sure first if C: is needed after path -> it was not needed). Everything works like expected.

[Sub3OneDay]

I’ll give this a go tomorrow and feed back.

Having just spent the last few hours re-adding all my devices to the midi config this would be a welcome addition!