Re: [Om-synth] autoconnecting

[Dave Robillard]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:16 +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> About autoconnecting to midi/audio...
> 
> I know it's not simple and it's not always possible, but it would be 
> really nice if om could be be set to at least *try*. So it should be 
> configurable in the om_gtk if om should try to connect or not. Some ideas:
> 
> One patch is most likely run from one midi source, right? I suggest om 
> tries to connect all midi in to the first output that doesn't have any 
> connections yet, same with midi out. Audio is a bit more tricky. I'm 
> always doing stereo out, for instance, so my needs are quite simple: 
> connect audio out to the alsa_pcm, same with input. Others might need 
> more advances stuff, so maybe we need some comfig here...
> 
> Question: Can om_gtk "see" the names of midi/jack input/outputs? If so, 
> would it be possible to save which ports the patch was connected to on 
> save time, and first try to establish the same connections again, if 
> that fails then fall back to the above?

This is definitely not Om's problem - Om is not a patch bay.

I believe qjackctl can save and restore connection states, or you can be
more experimental and try LASH and my Patchage (or any other patch bay).

LASH is the solution to this problem, but it's not quite here yet. :/
I'm on it...

-DR-