On 11/06/2016 03:05 PM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > I would prefer keeping what user has chosen, including if program is
The problem when importing a MIDI file is that the user hasn't chosen anything yet. These settings are stored on a per file basis, and there is no global default setup for this kind of thing. I got the original developers to implement the "always use default studio" option as a hack way of trying to address what I considered a serious design flaw at the time. In practice, I rarely used that option, and always found all of this slightly problematic, but not problematic enough to do anything about it after I eventually ended up becoming one of the longest-serving contributors here. > On 6 November 2016 at 18:01, Ted Felix <t...@tedfelix.com > What sort of behavior would you prefer? Assign to the first port > found? The way it was supposed to work, when you imported MIDI it would try to fuzzy match you with "General MIDI Device" and try to assign that to a playable port. Without actually studying and documenting any of the shifts, my intuitive sense of how things are going as the iterations roll along tells me that some of the work you've done cleaning various things up has in fact made this behavior deliver fewer good outcomes than was the case previously. I remember the last time I fooled around importing old MIDI files, I had a lot of problems, to the point where I had to look at the file in something else to figure out what programs I should set up, and then I had to set all of that up manually in Rosegarden. I don't know how it used to work, Ted, but I know I never had to do all that nonsense before. It's easier just to roll with the changes than try to untangle some mystical idealized past behavior. You sorted out a huge number of problems along the way, and this was collateral damage caused by overall very worthwhile work. You probably plugged a hole that used to make things work by accident or something. I could sit down and try to document what I see now, and offer impressions about what I think is probably wrong. Unfortunately, I can't say what is definitively and absolutely wrong, because I'm just too far out of touch at this point. When I was dealing with this particular stuff most strongly, it was back when the emu10k1 was a common thing. In day to day life, I never see the issue anymore unless I dip into old MIDI files from the '80s and '90s that I rarely see anymore. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
