Hi all, I did a bit of hacking on my app trying to make it alsa sequencer compatible but did not want to do too much changing in terms of how it deals with raw MIDI data. From looking at the API reference it seems that I have 2 choices: 1) Use raw midi option and specify "virtual" name which makes my app's MIDI I/O appear in the alsa sequencer, *but* does not give me an option of changing the node names which obviously is very important when it comes to working with a lot of apps concurrently. So therefore here's my first question: Is there a way to specify a "virtual" port so that I can receive raw MIDI data, have ports show in the alsa sequencer and on top of that be able to *rename* the port as necessary? 2) The other option is obviously to use alsa-sequencer API but in that case is there a way to simply convert the stream of received MIDI data into raw midi format so that I can use my built-in raw MIDI parsing engine for parsing the messages? Any help is greatly appreciated! Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.3 - Release Date: 3/15/2005