James Cameron wrote: > Wanted: something that will read /dev/sequencer (OSS or ALSA) and write > a MIDI file. > > I like point functionality ... where what you need is done by some small > tool, and you don't have to load something huge. There is a _very_ incomplete and ugly program at <http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~ladischc/seqrecord.c>. You have to compile it yourself, and it's barely usable. YMMV. > If it generated a tick through PC speaker, sound card, or MIDI, even > better. ;-) What about while true; do sleep 1; echo -ne '\x99\x25\x7f' > /dev/midi; done (but you need something else for more than one tick per second) HTH Clemens