Audio MIDI setup 10.6.8: Icon positions get messed up.

Question

Level 1

0 points

Audio MIDI setup 10.6.8: Icon positions get messed up.

I noticed this a few weeks ago after changing around some of my MIDI hardware, and it's still there in 10.6.8. I position the icons to represent the location of the actual equipment in the studio. When I quit and relaunch Audio MIDI setup, the icons get re arranged. This is a new behaviour, and it's not good.

They seem to get arranged in the order in which the "Device" was created, i.e. oldest on the left, newest on the right. It is also a very cluttered arrangement; it's hard to see where everything is. I have 9 MIDI devices and 3 MIDI interfaces, so it gets awkward.

I've seen discussions about this issue elsewhere, but nothing here. Hopefully this will bring it to the engineers' attention...

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 27, 2011 2:40 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Best reply

dan_phillips

Level 1

19 points

Sep 16, 2011 12:11 AM in response to madtheory

I have a relatively large number of MIDI devices, and I encountered this as well. It seems to be a problem with using Audio MIDI Setup in the default 64-bit mode. The fix is to configure it to run as a 32-bit application instead. You can do this by selecting the app in the Finder, doing Get Info, and enabling the "Open in 32-bit mode" check-box. This solved the problem for me; icon positions are now remembered correctly. Perhaps this has been fixed in Lion?

Reply

Answer 2

madtheory Author

Level 1

0 points

Sep 16, 2011 2:27 AM in response to dan_phillips

Thanks Dan, I will try that. I'm not changing to Lion for a while until I'm sure it's bug free for music and video.

Reply

Answer 3

Apr 10, 2013 12:41 AM in response to dan_phillips

Thanks for the tip, this has helped me sort the same annoying issue

Reply