UNder Mac OS X, CoreMIDI provides really nifty aliases for ports which are plugged into named devices. This permits them to be easily identified by users with multiple interfaces. These mappings are set up in the audiomid tool by creating devices and setting up wiring The mappings are also useful for named virtual ports created by other MIDI aware applications. COreMIDI also provides an interface for getting the name of the MIDI device providing the port which can further aid identification. IT would be really nice if the chuck probe stuff actually provided this feature. It would be equally nice if a MIDI port open had a "name matching this string" facility, so devices could be moved around between interfaces and provided you had updated audiomidi, all the chuck software looking for that device would Just Work. Thoughts? B> -- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Implementor) Nihil illegitemi carbovndvm