Re: [Rosegarden-user] Disable automatic Jack routing?

[D. M. M. <ros...@gm...>]

On Sunday 19 July 2009, John Galbraith wrote:
> the jack ports.  Then there are these new kind of "jack midi" ports which I
> haven't figured out yet, and I'm not sure that Rosegarden uses those yet,
> either.

We don't.  I haven't figured those out yet myself.  I've been hearing about 
"JACK MIDI" for years, and it seems somewhere along the way it finally came to 
be.

> rather from a separate QSynth instead.  So Rosegarden is probably only
> tweaking the Alsa MIDI port routing, not jack.

Probably so.

> current version, the procedure at least happens quickly AND it properly
> uses the ALSA midi ports unlike before.  So, all in all things are vastly
> improved already.

Maybe, but it still gets everything wrong most of the time, and even when it 
correctly reconnects something, it goes off and creates a new device for the 
same discovered port too.  Having more than one device connected to the same 
port leads directly to all sorts of irritating confusion, and years of fixed 
it no I didn't yes I fixed it no I didn't bug reports.

It's a good thing that is gone now.  We're supposed to aim for bringing a 
little bit of the startup auto magic back, but if it never happens, I can live 
with that.

> > A different question is JACK routing itself, the way we hook to this than
> > that in an attempt to be helpful.

> You guys have probably already been over this, but it seems to me that you
> might keep this pretty simple, with the option to disable entirely.

I don't think we've changed our traditional behavior here, but we should to be 
consistent, and we should adopt the same policy for both MIDI and JACK 
connections:  keep it minimal, or just don't even do anything at all.

Come to think of it, the JACK side of that *may* already have a configuration 
option, although it's also possible this is one of the ones we removed from 
the messy configuration page too.

I'm just not sure.

My environment is completely broken currently, and I've been spending all day 
trying to undo the disaster of upgrading to a new distro, and wondering why I 
didn't just switch to Windows while I was at it.

At least my email is working, it looks like.
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D. Michael McIntyre