CopperLan

Hi, I've got a pretty complicated MIDI setup with a couple dozen synths and a bunch of other MIDI devices, currently using four MOTU MIDI Express 128s. I've replaced one of the MOTUs with an AL-88c for testing and if all goes well I'm going to replace the other 128s with AL-88c's. I've been looking through the manual and looking around the forum, and although the crazy routing stuff you can do with CopperLan is cool and I might want to use some of those features at some point I'm mainly interested in a very simple usage case.

Basically I want to connect my synths to the AL-88c and have them show up in Cubase or Ableton with a human-readable name (like "ARP 2600 Kenton" rather than VMIDI1). I have so many synths that I'm not going to be able to remember that VMIDI22 is a Pro 2 or whatever. So how can I configure the AL-88c's physical MIDI ports to show up in my DAW with a friendly name like I do in the Mac Audio MIDI Setup -> MIDI Studio where I can rename each physical port on the Express 128s? I don't need any direct MIDI device to MIDI device routing, I just need a virtual MIDI port that is visible to other programs and connected to a matching pair of physical ports on the AL-88c with a user-defined name.

I'm on a Mac Pro running 10.9.5 Mavericks btw.

Thanks!

hi

renaming the virtual midi port is not possible with the current version. but it is requested by many users and we are working to include this in a next release.

/phil

Thanks for the response. Got everything working today, MIDI is working great bidirectionally from the other room with just an Ethernet cable. Big improvement from running a bunch of wires, but will stick with three 128s until the virtual MIDI ports can be renamed. Initial setup is a bit daunting but CopperLan works like a charm.

Phase2600 wrote:Thanks for the response. Got everything working today, MIDI is working great bidirectionally from the other room with just an Ethernet cable. Big improvement from running a bunch of wires, but will stick with three 128s until the virtual MIDI ports can be renamed. Initial setup is a bit daunting but CopperLan works like a charm.

You can also use the IAC Driver of OS X to name your ports. No need to wait for the new version. So go and buy more ALs
See my post here: viewtopic.php?p=1392#p1392