Re: MIDI devices

On 12/04/2026 21:51, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> If you simply want to have a bunch of tracks set-up to different 
> channels easily rosegarden does also have templates, so in this case 
> you could set-up a template with tracks / channels typical for your 
> setup and load that - a template can also be auto-loaded.

That sounds like what I want to do. I'd like to arrange several hardware 
synths on different tracks, and have them play together (could be the 
same or different MIDI out ports, I have quite a number of 8x8 
interfaces). I don't need to feed audio output back into Rosegarden, 
since I have everything connected to a big analog console. At best I 
would need to record the analog master mix output. However things may 
become more complicated when I add audio tracks for acoustic 
instruments, but I guess I would mix down those in Rosegarden, and feed 
a single stereo output from the computer into the console. That's how I 
did it in Logic.

I can't quite line up your description with the Rosegarden documentation 
- it doesn't seem to use 'template' as a key word.

Can you elaborate what you mean, like a doc page link, or a menu command 
combination? I'd like to explore that suggestion.


Quite a different approach came to my mind yesterday.

Being a seasoned software developer, I downloaded the source. A quick 
look at some *.cpp files looked more clear and promising than I 
expected. And just this evening I managed to build Rosegarden 
successfully from the source. So now I have a vision of a kludge hack:

I could imagine decorating my device names with the required channel, 
like "Korg Polysix:7". Then I could modify the source, so that on 
assigning a device to a track I can make Rosegarden look up the device 
name, extract the channel number (7), and set the track's channel 
automatically. Everything I would need seems to be easily accessible in 
the source - could even be something like a five liner.

So I just set the track to a predefined synth in the UI, and bam - I can 
play it from the track. That's what I would like. If it actually works, 
this would be a big thumbs up for open source software...


regards and thank you for replying

Chris