how to connect the output of my VI to a midi port?

[rolfk]

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@MichaelWestwood wrote:

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

What is a "VST"? What is "LoopBe1"? What is "Kontakt"? You said you wanted your VI to talk to Kontact. What does that mean? Is Kontakt a piece of hardware? Is it a software application? What API do you have available?

Also, please use full words instead of text-speak (ur -> your). This isn't Twitter. Thank you.

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This response has a very low Signal to Nastiness ratio. IMHO  

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I think most of it is very technical and valid. The questions in the first paragraph are all valid questions and could be definitely expected to be answered before there can be even thought about a possible solution. While I know what Midi is and even have made a Midi interface for the Commodore C64 more than 30 years ago, LabVIEW definitely is not de defacto standard or even second choice for most people who want to work with Midi (it could be even contented that the use of Windows is likely a bad choice for that). Of course it can be made to work with enough determinisme as LabVIEW is a full programming environment with which you can interface to just about any software API or hardware interface if it has a working API. But it is not an out of box experience and requires the person to pull up his sleeves and get his hands dirty with programming work.

Only the last paragraph could be considered kind of condensing, but I fully agree with the content of that one. I hate text-speak in general and definitely in a technical forum to the point that I will not even answer such posts, even if I could provide technical insight.

You should also ask yourself if your post was adding anything substantial to this thread at all! smercurio has answered many posts with very technical and helpful information. And yes after seeing the same kind of requests many many times, that come with lots of names that the poster expects everyone to simply know about and a certain attitude that LabVIEW should be supporting his problem right away without even investigating themselves into the requirements of his problem, it can get a little annoying over time. And text-speak postings do not help the cause at all.

[MichaelWestwood]

You got me. I did exactly what I was talking about and added more noise and no signal, and I do appologise. 

To add a tiny bit of signal, I found when using midi-example.llb, that the top level vi did not close the device properly and could not open it again. Calling the midcreset.vi on exit solved this.

Also, I have some VERY rough and rudimentary proof of concept code which uses IMAQ vision to detect an object in a image and output two midi controllers (x and y), contact me if interested at mike@westplex.co.za  

Regarding text speak, english is a living language so it's going to evolve whether we like it or not. Personally my bugbear is the rampant use of TLAs and FACAs in technical discussions (Three Letter Acronyms and Four ASCII Character Acronyms, which everyone knew already of course)