[maxmsp] a different way to set a midi port?

On 4 oct. 07, at 12:26, blairell wrote:

>
> i've been using midinfo to send port info to my patches.  the problem 
> is, sometimes a few of my midi devices aren't plugged in, and then the 
> relative midi port assignments change relative to the number i set.  
> is there another absolute way of setting a midi port?

On  MacOS (9, X), you can give names to your MIDI devices and use these 
names as argument in Max' MIDI objects. On Win, I don't know.

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