MidiOutput How to send messages?

General JUCE discussion
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I’m trying to open a midi output device to send some notes but how can I connect to the device, as MidiOutput is a private member, so

MidiOutput* midioutdevice;

midioutdevice = new MidiOutput(); //This is not working!

I can get a list of available midi out devices, whats the simplest way to send a midi message to this?

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Use MidiOutput::openDevice()…

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MidiOutput midiOutput;

midiOutput = MidiOutput::openDevice(0);

This gives me the following error

‘juce::MidiOutput::MidiOutput’ : cannot access private member declared in class ‘juce::MidiOutput’

Or if I do the following:

MidiOutput::openDevice(0); MidiMessage m (MidiMessage::noteOn(1,50,1.0f)); MidiOutput::sendMessageNow(m);

I get the error

Do I have to inherit from something, what am I missing?

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you’re NEARLY there…

you started with

MidiOutput* midioutdevice;
midioutdevice = new MidiOutput(); //This is not working!

which doesn’t work because you can’t just create a new MidiOutput using the constructor - you have to use the openDevice function which will return a pointer to an open device. Then you tried…

MidiOutput midiOutput;
midiOutput = MidiOutput::openDevice(0);

Which is so close, but notice what you’ve done wrong… openDevice returns a pointer to a MidiOutput, but your variable midiOutput is not a pointer. Not only does this mean that you can’t store the result of openDevice to it, but when you say “MidiOutput midiOutput;”, it’s giving you the same problem as saying “MidiOutput *midiOutput = new MidiOutput()” - the constructor cannot be used to create a new instance.

So you want it to be…

MidiOutput midiOutput;
midiOutput = MidiOutput::openDevice(0);

Then, assuming your returned device is valid, you can call stuff from it using the pointer ‘arrow’ operator.

e.g.

midiOutput->sendMessageNow (MidiMessage::noteOn(1,50,1.0f));
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Thanx haydxn!!! awesome stuff… Ok, working now, I can trigger sounds of the SW synth, which is being found as device 0, but I cant get cubase to respond to the midiout messages that Iam sending, Im trying to send the midi messages with the mpu-401 device and cubase is setup to listen to this but it doesn’t seem to get any midi messages, have any ideas?

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The only way your program’s output will be recieved by cubase is if

(a) you’ve got a wire connecting your MIDI out to your MIDI in, or
(b) you’re using a virtual midi loopback driver.

the one you’ve chosen isn’t a loopback driver, it’s just the standard interface for onboard/cheap soundcards.