[linux-audio-user] qjackctl patchbay - individual ports of a client?

It seems that the qjackctl patchbay only works with clients as a whole - you cannot selectively connect individual ports within a client. I'd just like to verify that this is really true. If the connections in the "Connections" dialog were saved as a configuration file, that would help, but I think that this is not the case. The reason for this question is that it seems that pd cannot generate multiple jack clients, and I want to route more than one qsynth engine into it. In the meantime, I am setting up scripts that use jack_connect and aconnect, but this is a bit tedious. I'm using DeMuDi 1.2 (I don't know why I waited so long to try it!) So, if anyone has suggestions or clarifications, I'd be very grateful. Thanks as always to the list members for their unfailing help and suggestions. Larry