Hello — 

Many thanks for your work on the IanniX project, and I hope you are all safe and healthy during this pandemic. If you have a moment during all this craziness, I have a couple of questions.

1. How can I be sure IanniX packets are received in Max on 2nd computer? I’ve got 2 MacBooks broadcasting to and receiving from each other; one with a Max patch, another running IanniX. It’s been easy to send data from Max into IanniX this way, but each packet sent from IanniX logs a consistent « Packet Dropped » error in the Max console, when messages are finally being received (often there is nothing).

I’m using regular [udpsend] and [udpreceive] and broadcasting on each computer’s IPv4 address using ports 57120 and 1234 as in the IanniX examples. Eventually I found this — https://bit.ly/ianniXudp — and provided my [udpreceive] objects with the recommended arguments [IPv4 of computer running IanniX]:[57120]. This worked temporarily before generating the same errors again. When I instantiate [udpreceive] this way, I sometimes see « binding to port 0 » in the console, although often I see « binding to port 57120 » as I’d expect. This is inconsistent, however, and in either case it results in dropped packets.

Thinking it could be something like a queue issue, I’ve also tried various maxqueuesize messages and CNMAT compatibility mode.

I’ve also tried other ports in IanniX. When I run the patch and IanniX on the same localhost computer, everything works as expected regardless of the ports chosen, but not on separate computers.

Finally, I’ve tried sending other data over the network in place of IanniX with nothing but success. Sending from Max on the same IP as IanniX to my other computer results in successful transfers of pings and other data. All messaging uses the same standard OSC.

Is there anything else I can do to troubleshoot this situation?

2. My other question may be easier: Can I save changes I make to the IanniX message editor within my .iannix file? Each time I open my IanniX file I need to assign the same 9th value to a cursor, using the IanniX inspector, but these changes never save with the file itself.

Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions! — 
Louis

Hi, I encountered an issue with regards to the macOS functionality of creating IAC MIDI buses. I have two of these enabled by default on my system, and when I hit stop in the timeline, and then play again, Iannix sends two more stop messages over OSC after the play message. This only happens when « sync transport in » and « sync transport out » are both enabled in Config:MIDI, and the number of extra stop messages corresponds exactly with the number of IAC buses enabled on my system (I tried with a few other numbers as well). Looking at MIDI Monitor (https://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/) I can see that Iannix sends a song position pointer to all MIDI buses, and since IAC buses simply bounce back everything you send to them I suspect that Iannix receives it back immediately. I think this is where the problem originates. However, it doesn’t actually stop playback, but only sends faulty « stop » OSC messages, immediately after the play message. This makes it very hard though to use the OSC messages in SuperCollider, as we can not tell if Iannix is playing or not. Perhaps it would be good to be able to block specific MIDI inputs/outputs from syncing, or maybe Iannix could automatically recognize the feedback input and respond correctly?

Hi,

I am trying to sync Iannix as master with another DAW. I only found a solution to send « global_time_verbose » via OSC.
The problem is that this parameter is received as a text value. So I have to deal with converting this to a usable timecode format.

Is there another way to output the scores timecode in another way, for example as MidiClock or MTC? This would make things much easier.

And as far as I understood, I have to use a cursor and create a message which sends this value. Is it possible to enable something like a global
output of the timecode, so it is not bound to running cursor?

Thanks lot, kind regards,

Christian