to exterminate extra midi thru ports

Date	2015-05-24 21:09
From	Forrest Curo
Subject	to exterminate extra midi thru ports
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	Somehow in the course of promiscuous audio program tryouts & finally allowing postponed software updates I've suddenly ended up with a horde of unwanted midi thru ports which are clogging up my aconnectgui interface & rendering it unworkable... I'm running on ubuntu 14... Ideas re what's doing it or what to do about it, please?!

Date	2015-05-25 18:46
From	Forrest Curo
Subject	Re: to exterminate extra midi thru ports
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	Okay, it's more or less fixed. I've removed the offending programs (maybe), suffered an upgrade, & still have the extra ports showing on aconnectgui. amidi -l doesn't show them. To connect to the virtual ports I'm been using for csound & pd: 1) start pd, audio to other card. 2) sudo modprobe snd-vermidi & then 3) aconnectgui can still reach the first of the new virtual-midi ports at the very bottom of the display. (Arrgh!)

Date	2015-05-25 20:57
From	Forrest Curo
Subject	Re: to exterminate extra midi thru ports
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	(I should have expected those midi-thru ports to be directly accessible via csound, but get): "ALSA: error opening MIDI input device: 'hw:14,0' " On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt@gmail.com> wrote: Okay, it's more or less fixed. I've removed the offending programs (maybe), suffered an upgrade, & still have the extra ports showing on aconnectgui. amidi -l doesn't show them. To connect to the virtual ports I'm been using for csound & pd: 1) start pd, audio to other card. 2) sudo modprobe snd-vermidi & then 3) aconnectgui can still reach the first of the new virtual-midi ports at the very bottom of the display. (Arrgh!)

Date	2015-05-26 05:28
From	Forrest Curo
Subject	Re: to exterminate extra midi thru ports
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	I found this on a forum: sudo rmmod snd_seq_dummy That worked. I needed to restart aconnectgui. (Followed it up with 'sudo modprobe snd-virmidi' to get back those ports; don't know if that was needed or not.) On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt@gmail.com> wrote: (I should have expected those midi-thru ports to be directly accessible via csound, but get): "ALSA: error opening MIDI input device: 'hw:14,0' " On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Forrest Curo <treegestalt@gmail.com> wrote: Okay, it's more or less fixed. I've removed the offending programs (maybe), suffered an upgrade, & still have the extra ports showing on aconnectgui. amidi -l doesn't show them. To connect to the virtual ports I'm been using for csound & pd: 1) start pd, audio to other card. 2) sudo modprobe snd-vermidi & then 3) aconnectgui can still reach the first of the new virtual-midi ports at the very bottom of the display. (Arrgh!)