Well, OK - in which case it's even more important to develop a consistent
and intuitive set of default flags across versions and generations of
Csound.

Let's face it, from the user standpoint, all we're talking about here is
command-line (or CsOptions) flags. That shouldn't be all that difficult to
achieve.

Art Hunkins

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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Csound5 MIDI changes - some testing needed


I do not want windows to pop up and ask for user input, as a default,
because this would interfere were certain uses of the API.

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Art Hunkins abhunkin@uncg.edu
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:19:57 -0500
To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Csound5 MIDI changes - some testing needed


Istvan et al,

Yes, that is what I'm asking for.

In a larger context, what I'm asking for is an example of this: let's try to
make, from the *user's* standpoint, CS5 work as similar to CS4 as possible.
(-M0 corresponds/defaults to the first MIDI *input* device on MyCsound4
(Lazzarini) and GBS8 (Ramsdell) and the comparable flag in CsoundAV.)

It may well be because of the lack of MIDI out in CS4 that the flag -M0
always returns the first MIDI input device. IMO -M0 should correspond to the
first MIDI input device in CS5 as well.

Frankly, I'd like -M to bring up a window of MIDI input device choices,
and -o dac to bring up a window of audio output devices - just like CsoundAV
does - but this may be asking for too much. However, it's *very user
friendly* - and this is what we need to aim for.

I expect Dr. B would back me on this "user friendly/intuitive" priority.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Istvan Varga" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Csound5 MIDI changes - some testing needed


> Art Hunkins wrote:
>
> > I hope this fixes the -M0 problem, for which CS5 used to interpret as
MIDI
> > *output* rather than the first input device. So, now does -M0 "default"
to
> > the first MIDI input device?
>
> -M0 is interpreted as the first PortMIDI device, which may be input or
> output depending on your system. With some effort it may be changed to
> skip numbers of devices of the wrong type, although there are also more
> important issues to deal with right now.
> What you are asking for is mapping device numbers as shown below:
>
> INPUT
>     1: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) (ALSA)     => -M 0
>     7: VirMIDI 1-0 (ALSA)                => -M 1
>     9: VirMIDI 1-1 (ALSA)                => -M 2
>    11: VirMIDI 1-2 (ALSA)                => -M 3
>    13: VirMIDI 1-3 (ALSA)                => -M 4
>
> OUTPUT
>     0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) (ALSA)     => -Q 0
>     2: Emu10k1 Port 0 (ALSA)             => -Q 1
>     3: Emu10k1 Port 1 (ALSA)             => -Q 2
>     4: Emu10k1 Port 2 (ALSA)             => -Q 3
>     5: Emu10k1 Port 3 (ALSA)             => -Q 4
>     6: VirMIDI 1-0 (ALSA)                => -Q 5
>     8: VirMIDI 1-1 (ALSA)                => -Q 6
>    10: VirMIDI 1-2 (ALSA)                => -Q 7
>    12: VirMIDI 1-3 (ALSA)                => -Q 8
>
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