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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
