I’m using Pure Data (Pd-L2Ork to be exact) on a MODEP system that has a Raspbian desktop installed; I’m using it to convert the motion of a USB joystick to MIDI data, among other things. I’m wondering how I can best auto-start this PD patch upon boot - I’ve been searching the forums and suspect it …

Here’s what I’ve come up with so far. In /usr/lib/systemd/system, there are a number of relevant .service files. One of them is jack.service, which reads (I’m using gedit): [Unit] Description=JACK Server After=sound.target [Service] LimitRTPRIO=infinity LimitMEMLOCK=infinity Environment=JACK_NO_A…

[image] crosswick: sudo systemctl enable puredata This enables launching on boot, the ‘start’ and ‘stop’ launch the service and kill it respectively on current session. ‘disable’ would stop running the service on boot. [image] crosswick: ExecStart=/usr/bin/pd-l2ork -rt -audiobuf 20 -inch…

Thanks Giedrius! Turns out that in the above case pd-l2ork wasn’t starting because the GTK+ visual framework wasn’t loaded yet. Starting with -nogui -alsamidi -mididev 0 does launch pd-l2ork succesfully at boot, and its MIDI ports are visible in qjackctl. I don’t know what the &U parameter is for; …

[image] crosswick: touchosc2midi <-> RtMidi connections These happen within touchosc2midi software itself, in particular the RtMidi library, so I don’t think it’ll be useful to you. I think you may create another .service file which would get started after pure data and touchosc2midi, or fin…

Yay, got it working. Here’s what I did: In /usr/lib/systemd/system, make two new files: puredata.service and MIDIconnect.service puredata.service contains: [Unit] Description=Pure Data service After=sound.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/pd-l2ork -nogui -alsamidi -mididev 0 [Install] WantedB…

Best way to auto-start/integrate PD?

Patchbox OS MODEP

Giedrius January 29, 2019, 8:58am 4

Here’s a script that makes aconnect connections, you may find it useful: Midi connection manager

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