I'll see about figuring out how to get more name information from the available MIDI ports.

The CoreMIDI is similar to the old Opcode OMS scheme, which might not be much of a surprise because Doug Wyatt, the man who wrote OMS, has worked for Apple now many years, and I presume he may have written a great deal of the CoreMIDI stuff.

It has layers of device records, and ways of interrogating the layers of devices' properties, names and other info. MacBB is probably not searching deep enough into that stack looking for names.

James Chandler Jr
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