i just made a tiny external [aconnect] that is a port of alsa's
"aconnect" to a pd-object.
quoting the man-page:
<quote>
aconnect - ALSA sequencer connection manager
aconnect is a utility to connect and disconnect two existing ports on
ALSA sequencer system. The ports with the arbitrary subscription
permission, such as created by aseqview(1), can be connected to any
(MIDI) device ports using aconnect.
</quote>
get it from: ftp://iem.at/pd/Externals/ACONNECT/
or from the sourceforge-CVS (hidden in ${CVSROOT}/externals/iem/aconnect)
i don't know why nobody has written this external yet (at least i
haven't found it)
mfg.a.dsr
IOhannes