At Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:13:23 -0800, Josh Lehan wrote: > > Hello. > > Newbie question: I'm wondering about sending untimed MIDI data to the > ALSA sequencer subsystem. > > The application would be for a "beep"-like program, from the command > line, that instead of making beeps, would play MIDI instruments to make > better-sounding beeps. > > I have TiMidity hooked up into ALSA, as a softsynth, and it works just > fine for playing MIDI data sent to it by ALSA. > > The "aplaymidi" command works for .MID files, and the "vkeybd" program > works for simulating a keyboard and sending in untimed MIDI data. The > "aseqview" program also works great for watching the notes being played, > as they go by. So, my MIDI software stack appears to be in order. I > don't have a hardware synthesizer hooked up at the moment (my Kawai K1 > is showing its age, and a few keys are broken). > > I also looked at "amidi", which features a -S option to send in untimed > MIDI bytes, but unfortunately, that addresses an entirely different > namespace. Evidently, it only speaks to "RawMIDI" devices, of which > TiMidity is not. > > So, I can't generate untimed MIDI data on my own. I was thinking of > writing a small "midibeep" program that would do this, similar to what > vkeybd does, but without requiring any user interaction. > > Does such a program already exist? I don't know of such thing, too. It'd be nice to have in alsa-utils. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
