[Lmuse-user] MusE and ALSA ports again

[Christoph E. <mch...@t-...>]

Hi,


some time ago, we have been discussing the MusE ports and 
their behaviour. I always wondered how MIDI ins and outs are 
divided by MusE, and I didn't clearly understand the MIDI 
port settings dialog.

Just some minutes ago, a big surprise.

Today I got a midisport 8x8 MIDI interface/patchbay. Finally, 
I can assign each instrument a dedicated MIDI out and 
assigning instrument definitions to an output instead to one 
particular channel finally makes sense for me.

I wanted to receive MIDI in exactly by *one* MIDI input.

The big surprise was that MusE alway uses MIDI in as well as 
MIDI out as soon as I assign any MIDI in the ports settings:

http://sysexxer.sf.net/files/MusEconnection.png

It is one of the great advantages of ALSA that MIDI ins are 
absolutely independent from MIDI outs and the user can 
connect them as he likes.

Now I have made the settings in MusE. I tried to disconnect 
the MIDI ins 1 through 3 using qjackctl, but as soon as I 
disconnect one input, *all* ins and outs get disconnected :
( .

Is there a certain philosophy I still didn't understand? I'm 
really a bit confused.

Werner made some suggestions about another port handling, but 
I was not familiar enough with these things so I didn't 
understand everything.


 Best regards


    ce