- Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com [2015-07-09 03:54]:
On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 09:22 +0200, Pierre Massat wrote:
The problem lies with Pd now, in the sense that the midi port is not open by default, and I have to manually open it every time I start Pd.
I posted similar questions to this list a few weeks ago, and IOhannes also pointed me towards an external object for pd, saying "the "mediasettings" library provides a [midisettings] object that allows you to query and set the midi devices."
Without jack I also use aconnect to connect alsa midi ports (although I wished this could be handled by device name, not id number, from within pd vanilla). There is an [aconnect] external as well.
So I was wondering if there was a way to open the port by default at startup. Perhaps with a startup flag ?
pd -alsamidi -mididev 1
If you need more ports, specify more numbers to -mididev:
pd -alsamidi -mididev 1,2,3
BTW. there is also a menu entry "File" -> "Preferences" -> "Save all settings", which is supposed to write all current settings to a file (on Linux: ~/.pdsettings). It seems it saves the settings correctly, but pd doesn't create any ports when started without any cmd options. Maybe this is a bug?
It feels like one, but I have learned to accept it as a given thing. So, whenever you want midi, also specify the -mididev along with it.
It would be so cool to have pd connect to alsa devices by name as well as by alsa index number. (2 cents)
best, P