Is there a way to exclude a device from being listed in Usine

[parityflux]

I have a program called JRiver Media Center that I use for organizing music and advanced tagging. Ever since I installed it, whenever Usine starts up, so does the JRiver software. It has to do with JRiver sensing that it's driver was queried with getBufferSize or something.

A tech thread is here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=82986.0

I'd like Usine to completely forget or ignore that this device exists and to never interact with it. That will prevent the JRiver from starting up.
The device is not selected when I start Usine and Usine is set to my usual device (Presonus FireStudio Project).

[nay-seven]

mm, very particular case
Usine scan your system by default, and it's a normal behaviour ( imagine when you change of sound cards )
now maybe Windows ( or Mac OS ? ) use this driver by default..?
have you look in the audio system preferences ?

[parityflux]

Thanks for the reply nay-seven. I'm on Windows 7. In the audio system preferences that particular device wasn't even listed.

The way their software starts running automatically is a known issue as described in the forum I linked, but I don't think they think it is important enough to fix; they seem hesitant, so I thought if I could prevent a device from being scanned by Usine, that it would prevent the JRiver program from starting. In any event, I removed their software from my music computer (and also had to remove their registry keys, because the uninstaller left them, especially the ASIO driver listing for it!) and all is well.

I'll live without it on the music computer.

-j

[Trogluddite]

I too could do with the ability to have Usine ignore devices...

In my case, it is the MIDI devices that are the problem. It seems that Usine locks all Midi devices that it finds, even those which are not currently selected in the setup list - which means that no other application is able to access them.
I'm pretty certain that this is behaviour within Usine, as I can duplicate the behaviour with any of my MIDI hardware devices.

This does seem surprising behaviour to me - the other music app's that I use release the drivers of devices that I want to reserve for other purposes.

This is making it tricky to use Usine alongside some of my favourite MIDI hardware units, and the software that I control them with. Even using "virtual MIDI cable" software, I'm unable to set my rig up the way I would like. (note to hardware manufacturers - it's the 21st century, there is no excuse for MIDI drivers to be 'single-client only' in this day and age, surely!!)

I understand, as Nay said, that locking the drivers is a useful function for users who need fast switching between devices during performance. However, a setup option to 'release unused drivers' would sure make my MIDI rig easier to manage (hint !!)