Daemon is forking me

[joebataz]

Been using Lemur for a couple of years. Have an app written and has been working fine with a minimum of maintenance. Been adding midi devices and started noticing a REALLY annoying and embarassing issue. I use a Pioneer WeGO to control Traktor and I occasionally was losing the midi connection. The only way to fix it was to restart both traktor and the WeGO which is very unprofessional looking. After quite a bit of playing around and logging huge amounts of midi data I tracked it back to my Lemur app. The app sends note pairs to a piece of USB hardware that interfaces to my DMX lighting equipment. So I thought maybe using the Lemur Daemon would isolate the the MIDI coming from the iPad to just being received by the DMX box. Of course the daemon is confusing as hell to me. The daemon in/out and lemur in/out don't seem to connect and now I can't even get it to go back to the straight network session connection that I was using for well over a year. Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to setup the daemon?

Thanks!!

Joe B

[Phil999]

if the daemon is not stable at your place, have you tried to use a wired MIDI connection? It's only one MIDI port, but very reliable. The iConnect interfaces may even have more ports I think.

[joebataz]

Here I go again. The nightmare on Daemon street.
I have a piece of MIDI hardware which is VITAL to my operation. But it doesn't recognize the Lemur Daemon!
I have a standard session called Session 1 running on my iMac. It USED to work just fine with my iPad setup to connect both From and To (MIDI 0 on the iPad Lemur app) to Session 1. Then I upgraded to 5 and doesn't work anymore.
So I try to setup the Daemon. The labeling is confusing as hell! Local Daemon 0 output only allows selection from Daemon inputs. ?????? This I just don't understand. Of course going the other way (Daemon Input) is reversed. I am now on my third day trying to figure out how to set this up.

HELP!!!!!

thx

joeb

[Macciza]

Hey Joe
Where'ya goin' with that daemon on a fork? ;~}

What platform are you on again? What midi i/o's etc? Send pics of midi setup info maybe?
What sort of connection to computer are you running and do you have a cellular iPad?

Cheers
MM

[joebataz]

Hey Macciza,

Can't think of something better to have on a fork right now....

iMac 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo, 12G RAM, internal 1TB drive, 5TB external USB 2.0 HDs, OSX 10.8.5;
MOTU UltraLite Hybrid mk3 (Firewire);
Hi-Power USB hub: LaunchPad, LaunchControl, LaunchKey MINI, Impulse 49 key, Maschine Mikro 2, Mac keyboard;
USB connected directly to iMac: Video switcher box, DMXIS controller, USB Hub, NI Traktor Kontrol S2;
Second monitor connected to iMac monitor port;
iPad 1, iPad 2 (running Lemur) via WiFi, Numark Orbit to a wireless dongle plugged into the hub;

Software being used, Air Beam Pro (live video from my iPhone), VDMX5 (music videos and Air Beam overlay), Traktor Pro 2.6, Maschine 2, BeaTunes 3 (on the fly playlist generation), CueMIX FX (sends audio to be processed on MOTU, (saves LOTS of cpu), DMXIS control software (Lemur sends ctlout messages to this app via DMXIS mapping), kJams (for karaoke).

YES, it has all worked beautifully together once I got all the MIDI and OSC mapped consistently. I obviously don't use all the software together although it is all running, i.e. I don't run music tracks in Traktor at the same time I'm running music videos on VDMX or Karaoke on kJams.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Lemur and constantly get questions about where I got my DMX software. Most peoples jaws drop when I say I give my template away they just need to buy Lemur. But as you can see I really push everything as far as I can and sometimes I just need to make a little tweak to get everything playing nicely ( and quickly) together. I am doing a TOTAL rewrite of my DMX software right now so again I'm pushing (really NEED dimming and sequenced scenes). So there it is!

And once again <In My Not So Humble Opinion>
Lemur is not a toy but pretty powerful software and my ideas come from all over. Some of my DMX controller software is inspired by other packages. How can it not be when I've spent so many years using other software and saying "Wow, I really like that" or "man does that suck!" Will it not affect my development? Yes there is a limit where why would somebody buy your software if it did the same thing as someone else's but was cheaper. But is the difference worth more or less? THAT is in the buyers mind. Name calling and arguments have no long term place on a developers forum. If you have an opinion then state it and I CERTAINLY DO! But then move on. I greatly respect the people and information on this forum and we all know about opinions, we all have them but don't waste this forum on tirade wars. That's how forums turn into pissing matches and I for one don't like it all over me.
<IMNSHO RANT OVER/>

Macciza, as usual thanks for looking at this when and if you have time!

Respectfully

Joe B