On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:47 PM, D. Michael McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: > So we have no detectable soft synth at startup, but we do have a detectable > "input-only MIDI keyboard." Whether this would behave well or not depends on > the nature of that keyboard. If it's truly input-only, then we wouldn't ever > choose that for a playback port.
The typical USB MIDI controller keyboard I'm thinking of also has a thru port, so it shows up as a duplex device. In my (obviously limited) experience, the most likely thing you are to see as "the only hardware MIDI port" on an arbitrary user's system is one of those: a device that is nominally duplex but will never actually play because the user has no real synth. > So if it fails, is seeing that your playback is connected to "no port" more > obvious than seeing it connected to "UM-2 MIDI 1 (duplex)?" > > That seems to be what you're arguing. Ye-e-e-es. Sort of. I think that seeing "no connection" is more likely to prompt you to try to connect it in order to get some sound than if you see some string you likely don't even recognise as a potential port name. I do see your argument too though. If you and Julie agree that it's better the way it is now, that's good enough for me. > The way things are working at present, that won't happen. In fact, if I go > off and start QSynth while Rosegarden is running, Rosegarden never makes this > choice available, even after refreshing the ports list. I can't connect > something to QSynth unless I start QSynth before Rosegarden. Owwowwowwow! That sounds like a serious bug. Oh lordy. Another thing I ought to look into. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
