tim hall wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2004 17:15, Benjamin Flaming wrote: > >>On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:09 am, Lee Dunbar wrote: >> >>>[snip: how to test a MIDI keyboard] >> >> Another idea would be to use Hydrogen for testing. > > > Yup, Qjackctl & Hydrogen are the two applications I usually bring up first to > check the system. There are command line utilities like aplaymidi & > arecordmidi (or amidi if you want to send sysex). I used to use timidity for > this purpose, but I haven't had it working properly for a while. > > cheers > > tim hall > A nice feature in Reaktor Session is the ability to play a patch using the standard keyboard. z-? provide an octave with a few keys in the next row up (s,d,f,h,j, etc.) providing sharps. Does no Linux soft synth provide some capability like this? I think it would be a nice little app for someone to provide a simple MIDI keyboard emulator using the qwerty keybaord. (Or is this what virmidi does? I've never used it.) Cheers, Mark
