rtpmidid VS MPC-LiveXplore-bootstrap

rtpmidid[1]. After getting some hardware synthesizers and wanting to connect them without using a computer.. but being able to use them too using the computer I stumbled upon with rtpmidi the protocol and it ticked all the boxes I needed. I could connect all my gear to a raspberry pi, use ALSA sequencer to connect devices to each other with another of my programs AseqRC[2], and then use my synths from my DAW without touching any cable.

So after a fast prototype I created rtpmidid and I'm quite happy on how it works.

And it also helps with the USB ground loop noise that it seems unavoidable some times.

For some time I had even two Orange Pis connected to two sections of my gear, using USB gadget support so my MPC One could speak rtpmidi. MPC One has support to connect as host to MIDI devices, but as guest (connect to the computer) only in controlled mode which is not what I needed to convert my MIDI tracks to my DAW.

[1] https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid

My hope is that they finish the MIDI 2.0 rtpmidi protocol, and that starts to be truly used in real hardware, not half used as current rtpmidi.

This would allow easy connectivity with very low latency over normal LAN, including switches, power over Ethernet...

Disclaimer: I created a rtpmidi implementation for linux https://github.com/davidmoreno/rtpmidid

I've been using rtp-midi, using rtpmidid and it's working fine.

I'm trying to figure out how to use rtpmidid by David Moreno with my iConnectivity Mio XL. Just running rtpmidid makes all ports show up in Carla and in Reaper, but no MIDI seems to be sent. In Bitwig i can't even see the ports. Maybe because it uses jackmidi and rtpmidid uses alsamidi?

I am inclined to say "no", but actually IDK - there is preset for AKAI MPK249 but never tried one - I use desktop software only for autosampling vsts. I did my template by myself to make sure it works how I wan't it - it's really not more than 5 minutes. The only problem is that the stock firmware don't allow to load templates from MPC Desktop to use template globally (you can only assign controllers per project). But if you use rooted firmware (https://github.com/TheKikGen/MPC-LiveXplore-bootstrap) you can use your own templates (require a bit skill with commandline but it is not hard)

There is an 'anyctrl' module which allows an external controller to map MPC functions. https://github.com/TheKikGen/MPC-LiveXplore-bootstrap