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Hallo,

Dave Phillips hat gesagt: // Dave Phillips wrote:
> Yes, Pd can do all this, but you have to have Pd on your machine. I love

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> Pd, but unless it can generate a stand-alone application (that doesn't

> require Pd) then it isn't really meeting the need.

I kindly disagree here: Why should a standalone app be better than

having an application written in a glue language like Pd is here?

Using Pd the way I proposed is similar to using a Python or Perl

script. Yes, you need to have Perl or Python installed, but these are

pretty standard on every distribution. IMO Pd is pretty standard as

well on a Linux musician's computer. And for this midi route stuff no

Pd externals are needed. Not everyone can programm in Python or Perl,

and especially GUI programming can be tricky with both, however GUI

programming in Pd really is trivial.
The real advantage of using Pd or whatever "scripting language" is

that one is not bound to the ideas the programmer had, who wrote the

midi translator: It's easy to add or remove features. 
IMO there is no need for a developer to spend an afternoon writing

something like Qmidiroute, when in Pd custom translators can be built

in a couple of seconds. And one doesn't even have to be a Pd meister

for doing it. Proof:
  [notein]

  |      |

  [pgmout]
This "patch" translates every note played to a program-change.
Ciao

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