0009895: Please add OSC control of MIDI Input Enable/Disable (green button on top of tracks in mixer)

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009895	ardour	features	public	2025-02-20 22:10	2025-02-24 16:24

Reporter	florianb	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	PC x64	OS	Slackware64 15.0	OS Version	6.7.8-preempt
Product Version	8.11

Summary	0009895: Please add OSC control of MIDI Input Enable/Disable (green button on top of tracks in mixer)
Description	Title says it all, there is no way to externally control that little green button. Why is that so important? Because without this, if you have a setup where your MIDI it sent to all instruments and you want to then control with some custom surface or scripts which instrument you play at any point in time there are only 3 possibilities: 1. Filter the MIDI channels, but there are only 16 and it's a bit complicated to quick change all this filtering via scripts. 2. Mute/Solo the tracks. But the MIDI data is still sent to the plugins. Some of my plugins take over 30GB of ram, imagine sending to all of them at once, only to mute that afterwards. 3. Some OSC/UDP thing that would save me so I could have my custom-built control surface let me chose which instrument(s) I want play and some scripts of mine automatically figure out which tracks to set as Enable/Disable on their MIDI input.
Tags	Midi, osc

florianb 2025-02-20 22:10 reporter	Screenshot_20250220_140935-ardour-midi-button.png (2,893 bytes) Screenshot_20250220_140935-ardour-midi-button.png (2,893 bytes)

florianb 2025-02-24 16:07 reporter ~0029221	EDIT: just remove that midi button entirely and replace it with a blocking of midi input when the track is muted. Indeed, there is no case I can think of when a muted track should still receive midi data in its input.

florianb 2025-02-24 16:24 reporter ~0029222	Please change the "Summary"/ Title of this post to: Please add a "MIDI input" Muting point option in the mute button which replaces the green "Midi Enable" button. That way we: * Get rid of that MIDI Enable/Disable button that has always been awkward and cannot be automated anyway. * Make MUTE (optionally) block the midi input data (which makes so much sense with MIDI instruments). * Don't need to change OSC since the Mute button is very automatable.

Date Modified	Username	Field
2025-02-20 22:10	florianb	New Issue
2025-02-20 22:10	florianb	File Added: Screenshot_20250220_140935-ardour-midi-button.png
2025-02-21 21:53	florianb	Tag Attached: Midi
2025-02-21 21:53	florianb	Tag Attached: osc
2025-02-24 16:07	florianb	Note Added: 0029221
2025-02-24 16:24	florianb	Note Added: 0029222