I’m new to Zynthian. I’ve got a v3 box. It’s a truly awesome little machine and I say this as one who really loves hardware synths. ZynAddSubFx alone is more capable than many hardware synths. I recently was considering a Kawai K5 or even K5000 but now Zynthian with ZynAddSubFx and X11 forwarding fulfills my wish to have high quality additive synthesis without booting Windows.
Anyhow, one thing I would like to do is have the MIDI in from a USB controller sent to the MIDI out DIN connector. That way I could use Zynthian as a convenient way to use a Roli Rise or other USB only controller with normal MIDI DIN devices.
I didn’t find a way to do this with the MIDI Router rules in the webconf. Is MOD-UI the only way of doing this currently?
By default, zynthian routes ALL MIDI coming from USB to MIDI-OUT. So probably you have some problem with your MIDI-OUT. Are you sure it’s working correctly?
I had already tested my Zynthian using the MIDI test.
I just hooked up the MIDI cable in the standard loopback configuration that most hardware synths require for their diagnostic mode.
The Zynthian does not like this.
Might I suggest a standard MIDI loopback test mode. The Zynthian could push a known MIDI stream from the OUT port and verify that is received without errors at the IN port. That’s the standard end-to-end MIDI port test implemented in many synths. All that’s required is a MIDI cable connected from OUT to IN.
I’m fairly sure we did discuss this as a test scenario, even to the extent of generating tones and using the sound to MIDI facilities to do all kinds of testing.