VL often acts as if it’s forgotten my X-touch mini controller between restarts. I’ve set up some transport and other actions and quite often I have to unplug/plugin and/or reset midi, and then remap the actions. This happens even though my controller shows up with the same name between restarts.
A guess is that this may be related to how Windows internally enumerates usb or midi devices. But maybe someone has encountered something similar and has an idea on how to fix it?
That may be your problem - every time you use a different USB port Windows adds it as a new device. I would have a look in device manager and delete the ones you don’t want. You may have to show hidden devices for all of them to show up.