All the devices are connected and ready when I start RG.
I have set up the default studio file but I am talking about
songs I have saved in *.RG format which, I believe, is designed to save
the studio settings. So it sounds like the ALSA behaviour mentioned
by DMM below... 


On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 19:30 -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On 11/24/2013 02:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > So I reconfigure my 3 in- and 2 outports everytime I start RG.
> 
> I didn't hear anybody mention Studio -> Save Current Document as Default 
> Studio in any of this discussion.  The idea is to start with an empty 
> composition, configure the MIDI connection nonsense how you want, and 
> then save it as the default studio.  This is used when creating new 
> document.  There is also "Always use default studio when loading files 
> []" on the MIDI tab under Edit -> Preferences.
> 
> Assuming you knew all that, there is still the problem of ALSA changing 
> the ID of everything every time you boot.  Rosegarden uses a matching 
> algorithm that attempts to deal with that by searching for a string as 
> well as a port number, but in practice this algorithm hasn't ever worked 
> that well, and it's frequently necessary to tweak things by hand.
> 
> It's supposed to be possible to get ALSA to assign the same ID every 
> time by editing some arcane file and putting undocumented magic words in 
> it, but good luck with that.  I've never gotten it to work.  The 
> documentation that exists for that is like going to a foreign country 
> with a simple phrase book that doesn't give you enough vocabulary to do 
> anything beyond finding the train station or the bathroom.  There is no 
> guide to learning the entire language as far as I know, and the whole 
> mess is harder to decipher than Greek.



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