Forgetful MIDI Device mapper

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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Hi TD forum,
I have two MIDI devices connected to my laptop, a Behringer UMC soundcard, and a Novation XL, all working fine and happy.
However everytime I open the TD project, the Novation XL doesn’t appear anymore in the MIDI device mapper, instead I have the Behringer listed twice.
Each time I have to manually set one of the In Device back to the XL Novation (which is listed and appearing in the drop down menu).

Is there any workaround or a fix to this?

I am using TD 2021.14360

thank you!!

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Hi @FaustoB,

this is a rather old build - are you able to repeat this faulty behavior in the latest release?

You could check if the device is listed in /local/midi/device

cheers
Markus

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Hi Markus, currently I don’t have access to the latest release, and the machine I’m using for this project has that 2021 version of TD installed.

The midi device appears in local/midi, but for some reason I have to reselect it in the midi mapper everytime i open that project

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Hi @FaustoB,

if it is in the device table, than it should work without having to reselect it and it sounds like a bug in the Midi Device Mapper.
If it’s not in that table I would recommend adding a Execute DAT which on start adds the device to the table manually.

Unfortunately the build is too old for us to do anything about it.

cheers
Markus

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Thanks Markus, the midi device appears in the device table, but not in the midi mapper.
I’ll try with the execute DAT, that’s a good idea, thank you!