Naming Midi Ports Possible?

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pmer
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Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by pmer » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:23 pm

Hi there,

I don't think this is possible, but hoping someone may have a workaround. Within the Midi Sync in Preferences, I don't see anyway of naming the various ports of a midi interface. This would help tremendously if you have 16 ports all going to various outboard instruments and you'd like names for each. Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

pmer
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by pmer » Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:28 pm

I'm beginning to give up hope on this..

thebreakthrougharchive
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by thebreakthrougharchive » Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:40 am

It can be done on a Mac via audio midi. Not sure about pc.

pmer
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by pmer » Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:54 am

Thanks so much for the response. Sorry, I should have specified, I'm running the latest version of Ableton 8 on Mac OSX. I've looked in the Midi preferences, but under Midi Ports, it does not allow for any renaming. Can you give me some details plz on how to achieve this?

Thanks again.

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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by crofter » Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:49 am

This would be good, I've asked about this before.
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by Machinesworking » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:21 am

pmer wrote:Thanks so much for the response. Sorry, I should have specified, I'm running the latest version of Ableton 8 on Mac OSX. I've looked in the Midi preferences, but under Midi Ports, it does not allow for any renaming. Can you give me some details plz on how to achieve this?

Thanks again.
In OSX go to utilities/Audio MIDI Set Up and open it. With Audio Midi Set up you can create a 'device' icon for each of your hardware studio set up pieces, cable them to your MIDI devices and in Live the ports will have the name of the hardware you gave it. I have a Wretch, Poly Evolver etc. all named. :)

pmer
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by pmer » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:13 pm

so obviously overlooked! you are a genius! Can't thank you enough sir. :D

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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by Fantismo » Sun May 03, 2015 10:06 am

I do this, but nothing changes in ableton.. it doesn't recognise the device i creat in audio/midi setup - can someone help please?

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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by ORyan87 » Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:44 am

Did anyone ever figure out a solution for this?

Fantismo
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by Fantismo » Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:25 pm

lol... NO!

ableton is notorious for prioritising new features to selling more copies and make more money than get its product fit for purpose.. I think ill go to bit wig you know..... would be so useful.. must have wasted so many hours trying to remember what is where... studio change arounds.. etc..

Mr. Pete™
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by Mr. Pete™ » Wed Apr 29, 2020 2:42 am

Fantismo wrote:
Sun May 03, 2015 10:06 am
I do this, but nothing changes in ableton.. it doesn't recognise the device i creat in audio/midi setup - can someone help please?
I had this working but then disappear again after I changed some of the configuration (in Audio MIDI setup and hardware) from USB to existing DIN MIDI ports — is there a way to force Ableton to reset or reread new prefs/imput ports etc after reconfiguring this?

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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by machinedriver » Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:26 pm

It's one of the only OSX applications where it seems not to work... even for the Core Audio names... really disappointing.

Mr. Pete™
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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by Mr. Pete™ » Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:25 am

under OSX 10.15 Catalina in LIVE 10.1.15 suite - it works for me with USB but still no luck DIN connected MIDI hardware even though they are all named in Audio/MIDI setup and appear as expected in other apps. Is this something to request from ABLETON in eMails or do they monitor this forum?

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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by somaforon » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:55 am

same here, it's the only modern audio application not capable of this, lol. pretty sad, maybe they need to stop inclusivity hires in berlin, and go for qualification and/or people who can code.

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Re: Naming Midi Ports Possible?

Post by interceptor » Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:01 pm

Pleeez abes. We need this. You did it for audio ports. Now do it for midi too.

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