[LV2] MIDI: NOTE OFF on or just before deactivate() or cleanup()

Filipe Coelho falktx at gmail.com
Sat Nov 23 03:05:39 PST 2019


On 23.11.2019 08:58, Sven Jaehnichen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I observed, that my (and others) lv2 midi plugins do not stop 
> plugin-generated midi NOTE ON signals after closing the plugin. I 
> thought about it but I didn't find a way to do this. Feeding the 
> respective atom output port with LV2_MIDI_MSG_NOTE_OFF in deactivate() 
> would be too late and without effect (if allowed anyway?). And even 
> later in cleanup, it doesn't make any sense.
>
> Is there any way to send a MIDI NOTE OFF if the plugin is deactivated 
> or just before?

There is no way to do this as far as I know.

In Carla, I setup a flag so that on the very first run of a plugin, it 
sends "all-notes-off" to every MIDI channel.

Doesn't help with the cleanup, though



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