On 2016-07-18 17:55, Miller Puckette wrote:
It's in the "registry", under "Software\Pd", in the "local machine" area.
cheers Miller
right. now i double and triple checked the registry ---> here's where i found it: HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-321511053-4116537890-2948523399-1001_Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Pd
seems like "puredata.info" has to update it's informations ;-)
i don't know how my pref settings ended up in a weird place like that, but anyway: one of the great things about PD is that it doesn't NEED to be installed to run, and is therefore easily portable and shareable. writing a simple text-based thing like preferences into the abysmal registry feels counterproductive to me.
of course it's always possible to do it the good old batch way to precisely define midi inputs, sound cards etc.
what seemed to be nice about the "preferences" way is that i could define a soundcard by name, rather than by device number (which usually changed when hardware is changed).
is there any way to define the audio/midi driver by NAME in a batch startup script ?
again, i would like to stress that (maybe for future PD releases) i would much prefer to have preferences settings easily editable, like in a text-file somewhere in PD's main directory, just like the LINUX ~/.pdsettings.
best
oliver