Re: [Rosegarden-user] Play/Record device confusion

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

Larry Troxler wrote:
> Ahhh, now I understand! Regardless of which track is record-enabled,
> it uses that configured record source.

Yep.

> What I wrote it turns out is only due to some confusion in the device
> naming. My first MIDI device was named "External Midi Device", the
> second "External Midi Device 2", etc. So the first device is missing
> the number designation, not the channel number.

Ah, right.  That's actually deliberate (so that if you only have
one device, it doesn't bother sticking a 1 on the end) but I can
see it might cause confusion.

> First, what determines what MIDI devices Rosegarden opens?  For
> example, if I am running an other application (in my case, PD) with
> Rosegarden, what should I do to make sure that Rosegarden doesn't
> steal a  port that I want the other application to use?

We're back in the territory of code I didn't write again, as well
as of code that might well be wrong -- but as I understand it, RG
connects to every available ALSA sequencer port on startup, on the
assumption that that doesn't necessarily prevent anyone else from
connecting to them too.  The Studio setup only controls which port
it sends to, not which ones it connects to.

> Second, I can get Rosegarden to record from a hardware MIDI device,
> but not from a virtual MIDI device.

Hm, I'll have to take a look.

> One thing I haven't tried, is to delete the 73:0 play device from the
> studio. Could this be the problem, that rosegarden is trying to open
> the device in both directions?

That shouldn't be a problem I think.


Chris