[PD] auto-adding MIDI devices

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2012-03-23 14:29, kristof lauwers wrote:
> 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..

why 4?
(and not, say, 37?)

> 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..

i'm also rather sceptical about auto-connection, esp. when based on
numerical IDs.
e.g. i don't see a big advantage to autoconnect to a MIDI-thru device,
that will loopback all the data i just sent.

fgmasr
IOhannes
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