federico wrote:

launching pd with the -alsamidi switch has no effect. in order to let puredata open the sequencer port, I have to click Media->ALSA-MIDI and click Apply or Ok, then pd status window will print:

Opened Alsa Client 128 in:1 out:1

this can be a bug or a feature, but maybe it is logical, if I set the -alsamidi switch, I *want* MIDI ports opened.

yes i know. you have to explicitely state "-mididev 1" to get 1 port. what is even more confusing is, that you have to state something like "-mididev 5,1" to get 2 midi-ports. this is for compatibility reasons with oss midi.

also, is there a switch or something to connect these sequencer ports directly to some other ports? (are we planning to insert lash support?)

i have submitted a patch to the sf-patch tracker that automatically connects all available other ports to the pd-ports (if you have specified exactly 1 port); however after some testing i think this patch is a rather bad idea (the first time i tried it in real life, it connected to the midi-through, and my patch went crazy)

the best solution would probably be, that if the user does not specify what ports they want, pd should open one in-port for each available source-port and one out-port for each available destination port and automatically connect.

i have no idea, what "lash" means, though (i'll go to bed now, so no time for googling)

in the meantime you can use the [aconnect] external for doing connections from within pd.

mfg.a.sdr IOhannes