Re: [Rosegarden-user] MIDI device dialog problem in 0.9?

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Friday 16 May 2003 09:54 pm, Larry Troxler wrote:

> For one, why would you not be able to edit the name of the device from the
> device editor? For example, I have a U-110 (a real MIDI synth), and PD (in

I don't disagree with you that what you propose seems logical.  I'm just not 
sure whether or not it can be reasonably expected to work that way at this 
time.  The device editor is very new, and the weird way the edit box thingie 
is behaving makes me think that that might well be a partially-implemented 
feature, or maybe even an unexpected consequence of using that particular 
widget or what have you.  I didn't write that, haven't looked at the code, 
and am not sure what its author had in mind, but I do agree with you that it 
would be logical to edit device names there.

> certain device and channel (or maybe not even limit it to a channel), and
> insert the program changes manually. I realize that I am not in the
> mainstream, of course.

That's going to be a problem.  For one, you have to assign a channel.  For 
another,  you can't insert a program change arbitrarily at present.  In order 
to assign a track to a particular LSB/MSB/program combination, that 
combination has to have a name, even if the name is just a string with number 
in it.  I've offered a stopgap solution to this in the form of a bank called 
raw-numbers.rgd, which you can load into any LSB/MSB bank you need it for, 
but it's pretty ugly, and actually I'm not sure the file even works.  I think 
it was broken the last time I looked at it.

I suspect you want to eventually insert program changes via the event list 
too.  That, I'm afraid, isn't likely to happen.  That was discussed a bit 
ago, and was shot down with a howitzer.

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