Modules for External Midi Devices

[gurulogic]

I do a lot of midi routing around behind the VST host and it would nice to be able to directly access external hardware and virtual midi ports directly from Usine modules. I have a couple third party vst's for midi out but no midi in. Native functionality would be betst anyways...

[bsork]

If I understand you correctly, you want to have something like "named" Midi In and Out modules(?). If so, a possible workaround would be templates where you name the modules and set the port and Midi channel so that you can choose the right one from the pop-up list instead of creating and editing.

[senso]

Personally, (but I'm not a MIDI expert) for this kind of stuffs I use MIDI buses and then, a put on a track a patch that receives all the midi out codes from all the patches and send them to their respective devices.
I think that it's a better solution than addressing directly MIDI devices in patches. By this way you can keep your patches 'device independent', which more in the spirit of Usine and more secure!

[gurulogic]

Unless I'm missing something, the only midi port in the VST version is the default track in/ out, right?
So if I need midi from each of several external ports to go to multiple different destinations for various processing and rerouting to VSTI's, hardware etc. then I need to do this in another software? I do this already in Bidule VST but a similar functionality in Usine would be nice and would play nicer with my method of doing things. Just a thought though, and I can find workarounds...