[LAU] [Bulk] Re: Bridging alsa and jack midi

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:22:36PM -0400, Tim E. Real wrote:
> On September 27, 2014 04:19:10 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Perhaps OT, perhaps not.
> > 
> > [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ amidi -l
> > Dir Device    Name
> > IO  hw:0,0    HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1
> > IO  hw:1,0    TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI
> > IO  hw:2,0    TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI
> > IO  hw:3,0,0  nanoKONTROL MIDI 1
> > IO  hw:4,0,0  USB Device 0x170b:0x11 MIDI 1
> > 
> > Currently I need to manually connect the TerraTec cards MIDI ports. Is
> > there a way to give both cards an unique name? JFTR the TerraTec cards
> > have different IRQs. It would be comfortable if e.g. aj-snapshot could
> > distinguish both cards.
> 
> Can you, or someone, please tell me what happens in a case like this?
> Each day he boots his computer, is it guaranteed 
>  TerraTec A  = hw:1 and TerraTec B = hw:2 ?

I'm not sure, but would a udev rule help here? That's the first thing
that springs to mind. It would seem that hw:1 and hw:2 are physically
fixed or are they named during the boot process?

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