mol3 and 2 ethernet ports on mac pro
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owlicksloo


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:54 pm    Post subject: mol3 and 2 ethernet ports on mac pro Reply with quote

Hello,

It seems that mol3 gets confused when I plug another ethernet device into the 2nd ethernet port on a mac pro. Here is the scenario: I have mol3 sending from my sequencing mac to a sampler mac, I also have some mol3 ports in loop back mode on the sequencing mac. I am using bidule to host samples on both machine. All is fine. However, on the sequencing mac when I try plugging in a Euphonix MC Mix to the 2nd ethernet port, the mol3 ports (on the sequencing mac) seem to be disrupted. I assume this because in bidule, my midi device inputs are reordered and one of them shows up as an Euphonix input, rather than a mol3 port. I'm guessing the problem is because somehow the two ethernet ports are not exclusive? In the euphonix settings, it shows what ethernet port it is connected to, but in mol3 software is there a way to see what physical port it is communicating with. Or am I on the wrong track? Any suggestions and advice greatly appreciated.
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sylvain kepler


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry but I'm not familiar with bidule etc.
However I presume that as soon as you connect another midi device, It has to be listed among the existing midi hardware you can choose and assing for a given track on your 'sequencing' mac.
I mainly think that the hardware aspect of the environnement should not be too much entitled to changes along your composition works. Say get an environnement and stay stuck with it all along.
As soon as something new enter the 'game' it can change the available connections and sow the trouble in your previous sequences when you reload them.
I experience this as well for the vst connections, especially if I activate or deactivate some spdif features of my audio interfaces. Same thing, as soon as I got molcp involved, it changes my midi devices list and I got to reassign them.

As for the ethernet ports, I presume it has to do something with their priority; As soon as you switch on another ethernet port, It may have further 'weight' on the other and take precedence on the other one...
So what was previously involved for molcp is getting overiden be the new activated ethernet port. You may go to the network preferences and reorder your network interfaces. It looks like molcp interact with the most 'prioritized' of your ethernet ports. I'm afraid that molcp doesn't offer the option to choose one ethernet port among the others. It rather consider the ethernet port which has the most important metric.

So if molcp could be impoved :
- improve the way it handles s y s e x messages
- improve the way it manage ethernet ports
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