[PlanetCCRMA] MidiMan 2x2 Question

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

>    I have been continuing to work on this HDSP 9652 MIDI stuff and ran
> across one piece of data that confused me a bit. It is my understanding
> that the MidiMan 2x2 is a 2 port MIDI device, and it acts like a two
> port device inside of Rosegarden as far as I can tell. However, I'm
> puzzled over the entries I see in /dev/snd.
> 
>    If I boot my PC with the 2x2 disconnected and then do an ls of
> /dev/snd, I see what appears to be the two ports on the HDSP 9652. When
> I plug in the MidiMan, I only see a single port added. Is this correct
> operation?

I think it is. The two ports appears as subdevices of the device that
gets created. Apparently it is not possible to create individual devices
for midi ports because there are not enough free device numbers. I don't
know why the hdsp creates two devices. This was discussed a bit on
alsa-dev (I think) until Jaroslav pointed out the limitation on the
number of device numbers (it is a problem with bigger interfaces, for
example 8 port midi devices). 

-- Fernando