[LAU] Rock Band 3 Keyboard Controller (was: live performance, midi program change from the keyboard)

[Ken Restivo]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Luke Peterson <luke.peterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm familiar with the importance of connection order already with my rig: I
> > learned to plug my Fast Track Pro in to USB before any other USB midi device
> > or else I have to change around my JACK config to point to a device other
> > than hw:1.
> 
> cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
>                       HDA ATI SB at 0xfcef8000 irq 16
>  1 [DSP            ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
>                       RME Hammerfall DSP + Digiface at 0xfcff0000, irq 20
>  2 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
>                       HDA NVidia at 0xfe57c000 irq 32
> 
> see the names in square brackets? use them to tell JACK what to use:
> 
>    jackd -d alsa -d hw:DSP .....
> 
> then the discovery order doesn't matter anymore.

AUUUGGH! You can give it names instead of numbers?

I never knew that; I've been limping along for years now. In 2007 I spent many hours writing a whole bunch of convoluted Python scripts to try to hack around having to specify hw: in numbers. Gah.

Thanks, wow. Glad there's a better way.

-ken