Dummy MIDI devices (USB issues)

There's one thing with USB controllers... they can get disconnected during a session, or turned on after reaper is started so you'd need a rescan devices and so on. And they tend to be enumerated differently depending on the USB port they're connected (or worse, a hub). I would like Reaper to: - Provide an intermediate 'wrapper-layer' which keeps the name+settings of a USB midi controller, even if that is disconnected or connected to a different USB port. - Maintain that information throughout sessions/projects and on different PCs. (when using same configuration files) - Allow the user to know the device is 'not connected' as usual, but keep the name+reference intact. - There could be a device-polling feature to check for device connectivity status (for re-establishing connection to previously disconnected devices that are needed in the working project) In essence, a USB MIDI device will act like old-fashioned MIDI devices did. The moment it gets reconnected, Reaper recognizes and auto-reconnects to it in a matter of (milli)seconds.

And here we ago again lol this is why I use Midiox!! Midiox is first on the chain then it puts midi out to reaper via loopmidi reaper always sees the virtual port as active so midi comes in on my Edirol Fa101 then into midiox which is doing some work like filtering midi and doing some sysex sending to my external fx gear (( for patch uploads and backups) then the midi goes into reaper through loopmidi or you can use midiyoke. There is a big advantange in running Midiox in front of Reaper, watching your midi date live in and out is very nice and super detailed to know what is going on, not the fact that the data screen looks sweet at night LOL Anyways that is how I have ran my systems since Midiox came out ages ago. christ since windows 98 LOL days.

This is actually a great idea. You could assign any MIDI device to any number of "Wrapper" devices. And you could do it multiple times, for example: Wrapper device 1: Keyboard 1 Wrapper device 2: Keyboard 2 Wrapper device 3: Keyboard 1 Keyboard 2 Etc... It would completely kill the need to readjust anything in older projects and you would also be able to create separate devices for different purposes. At the moment it's all or nothing - you either input one device or input them all. Yes, I'm aware that it could be done with MIDOX and some virtual MIDI cabling (or lots of tracks and send in Reaper but that would really be a hack) - but native solution would be the most elegant and future proof. This topic came up in a search for a FR, so is there one already or should it be created?

I also find this useful. I recently switched from the old MIDIYoke to loopMIDI which creates its virtual MIDI ports 'on demand' (meaning it must be running to create the MIDI ports). If I forget to start it before I start REAPER - bam - the virtual ports assignment in REAPER is gone.