[PD] auto-adding MIDI devices

[kristof lauwers]

Hi,

If you are going to make changes to the midi device setup, i have two 
other suggestions:

- in the midi settings dialog (on windows),  you can only select two 
midi output devices. the only way i found to use more then 2 devices 
is by adding them manually in the registry. it would be nice if you 
could add at least 4 devices from the dialog..

- would it be possible to save the setup by device names rather than 
by enumeration? if you don't use a fixed setup all the time, the 
enumeration on windows changes quite randomly.. i had problems before 
when  windows changed the order of my internal soundcard and my motu 
and Pd tried to start the internal card with asio, which it doesn't 
support, which caused pd to crash at startup..

as for your idea to automatically open a midi devices, guess it can 
be useful for people who have only one device, but as son as you 
connect an external midi device, most of the time you have also an 
internal midi playback on the soundcard and you don't know which one 
is first in windows' enumeration..

all the best,

Kristof


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At 04:03 2012-03-23, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:


>I was just thinking, currently Pd can get a list of the active MIDI 
>devices, on Windows and Mac OS X at least.  Would there be any 
>problem if Pd just automatically added those and enabled them if 
>there weren't any preferences saved?
>
>So if someone has setup their MIDI devices, then they would not be 
>touched.  But if the MIDI device setup was just device, it would 
>just add the MIDI devices found by sys_get_midi_devs() in sequential order.
>
>.hc
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