mixer for jack - mididings not working anymore

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didgewind
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mixer for jack - mididings not working anymore

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Hi there, I've been using non-mixer and mididings to map my midi control to osc for a while, but since upgrading my ubuntu distribution to 18.04 mididings stopped working :(. I cannot find another way to control non-mixer from a midi controller (jm2cv is not compiling in my system) and cannot find another decent mixer for jack.

Any help with this? (with mididings returning to work or a good mixer for jack that I can control with midi)?

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: when using python3.x, sometimes build or install will fail because file mididings/units/call.py is using async as a variable name, when now it's a reserved word. The solution is changing that word in that file for another one (for example, asynchro).
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Re: mixer for jack - mididings not working anymore

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Does it give any errors?

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Re: mixer for jack - mididings not working anymore

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yep,

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mididings", line 18, in <module>
    import mididings
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mididings/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from mididings.setup import config, hook
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mididings/setup.py", line 13, in <module>
    import _mididings
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mididings)
It's a known error, confirmed but still unasigned from Ubuntu team.
I think it's related to a phyton update.
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Seems to be related to python version.

I would install it from sources, and include this fix: https://github.com/dsacre/mididings/com ... 2d6538db19

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Re: mixer for jack - mididings not working anymore

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Great! Thank you very much, that solved my day!
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Re: mixer for jack - mididings not working anymore

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tavasti wrote: Thu May 30, 2019 8:50 am Seems to be related to python version.

I would install it from sources, and include this fix: https://github.com/dsacre/mididings/com ... 2d6538db19
Definitely wort documenting own problems here! Now I had same problem, and nice to find here how to fix it :-)

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