While I was asleep last night wine applications lost the ability to recognise alsa midi ports (external controller, midi-through etc). In other words I was able to work with midi last night, but something has changed. In both Reaper and in Tracktion 3 Demo the box in the preferences where all the devices were listed last night is now empty. I thought it might have been a wine upgrade from the official ubuntu hardy version to the one in the winehq repository (1.1.2), but rolling it back made no difference. However at some point while I was trying to get wineasio-x working I tried changing winecfg to disable alsa. When I first noticed that midi wasn't working winealsa was still disabled, but after I re-enabled it it still refused to work. In other words I had done something that could reasonably be expected to cause wine midi to stop working, but it didn't start working again once I had put this right. Does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Many thanks :) Robert