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Note On/Note On doesn't respond to incoming messages

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For my control surface emulator I was using Note On/Note On controls, which work fine outgoing, but incoming messages are ignored. I've spoken with James K Hiser on Facebook and he mentioned I should raise the problem here - he has also confirmed it is not working for him either.

Can this please be raised as a bug for fixing?

I've coded a StreamByter workaround for this problem, but this has raised another problem, in that the StreamByter plug-in does not accept the 'BLOCK' command!

For anyone curious, here are a few seconds of my emulator in action:

asked Apr 8, 2020 in Defect (Confirmed, Not Fixed Yet) by the-elf (1,190 points)
recategorized Apr 11, 2020 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
Have you tried ON ON? This thing is extremely impressive. Also: lots going on here. I don't doubt your command of the material, but have you proven this out in a very simple test? If you have two iOS devices, two MDs are a great way to test too.
commented Apr 9, 2020 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
I've tried everything I can think of, with two iPads and connecting directly with a genuine hardware control surface. I've watched the messages going in and out and I can see that the correct messages are coming back to MD, but any control set to Note On/Note On doesn't respond to the same message coming in as it sends out. By using Note On/Note Off controls instead I can get it to work by intercepting the outgoing messages in StreamByter and converting them:
IF M00 == 80
  MAT M00 = M00 + 10
END

Doing this means that MD sends the right outgoing message and it responds correctly to the incoming message. The problem is simply that the StreamByter fudge shouldn't be necessary.

But it all works as it should, apart from this bodge!
commented Apr 9, 2020 by the-elf (1,190 points)
edited Apr 9, 2020 by the-elf
I built a quick test layout with a group of on/on notes and on/off notes, all 0-127, then piggybacked two iPads.  The on/off controls correctly responded to both the on/on and on/off controls, the on/on did not respond to either on/on or on/off.
commented Apr 10, 2020 by jkhiser (19,810 points)
Okay I'll fix this at some point soon. Thanks for finding this bug and for testing, both!
commented Apr 11, 2020 by MIDI Designer Team (Dan)
Thank you very much.
commented Apr 12, 2020 by the-elf (1,190 points)
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