[Rosegarden-devel] MIDI Thru policy (was Re: my TODO list)

[Pedro Lopez-C. <ped...@gm...>]

On Sunday, 30 July 2006 15:55, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Sunday 30 Jul 2006 13:35, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > 1531211 MIDI Thru problems and proposals

Tracker URL:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1531211&group_id=4932&atid=354932

> I would certainly be happy to see some work done on this.  Just
> switching the Thru routing behaviour from using the selected track to
> using the armed track(s) (without having an option for it) would
> probably be good enough for me.

There is a problem with this. MIDI Thru works not only when you are recording, 
but also for playing. The current behavior is very convenient in this case, 
because with a single click over a track button you get adjusted the routing. 
It ts very handy to have the "track mute" button so close, too. 

OTOH, for recording it would be better to follow the armed tracks instead of  
selected track. But this would require for every armed track to have an 
exclusive recording filter (input device and channel), not the default "All" 
values. So I would prefer to not activate this by default.

And at the end... Wouldn't be easier to optionally disable the internal MIDI 
Thru function on Rosegarden, and use qjackctl and its ALSA MIDI connections 
window to wire the events routing?

Regards,
Pedro