[Rosegarden-devel] Incremental improvement on displaying MIDI ports

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Hi,
   Thanks for Clemens I now see that for some Linux MIDI devices their
drivers give a more human friendly name. Would it be possible for Rosegarden
to display this port name instead of the client name? If so, I think those
of us with multiple hardware interfaces would have an easier time.

   The aconnect -io code should be a clue on how to obtain this info.

   FYI - there are problems with BOTH of my devices. The HDSP 9652 doesn't
list a name like the MidiSport, and the numbering is incorrect. For the
MidiSport I have an older Alsa and it's listing the output ports as input
ports. Both of these are fixable.

Thanks,
Mark


[mark@Godzilla mark]$ aconnect -io
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
    0 'Timer           '
    1 'Announce        '
client 64: 'External MIDI 0' [type=kernel]
    0 'MIDI 0-0        '
   32 'MIDI 0-1        '
client 72: 'External MIDI 1' [type=kernel]
    0 'Midisport 2x2 Port 0'
    1 'Midisport 2x2 Port 1'
    2 'Midisport 2x2 Port 2'
    3 'Midisport 2x2 Port 3'
[mark@Godzilla mark]$