There is a simple command-line app called playmidi that you can use to play midi files. Apparently it doesn't have it's own website but you should be able to find a package easily enough. Using cat doesn't work - I guess because the midi file format must contain time data whereas the data coming from a midi wire is played as soon as it is recieved. On Sunday 02 February 2003 10:12 pm, Joe Hartley wrote: > On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 12:05:57 -0800 > > Tobiah <toby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Joe Hartley wrote: > > > I can download new models of mics into it via MIDI, but am such a > > > MIDI novice I have no idea which app would be suitable for this sort of > > > thing. Any suggestions? Thanx! > > > > I should think that you could use cat. > > > > cat downloaded_midi_file > /dev/midi0 > > Well, this seems blindingly obvious, and when I try it I get the MIDI out > LED on the Delta to light up! Huzzah! > > Course, the AMM-1 doesn't seem to realize anything's happening... so > it's into they mystic now. > > I tried /dev/snd/midiC0D0 as well, with the exact same results. > Trying it to /dev/snd/seq fails, though: "cat write error: Invalid > argument" > > So much fun!
