On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 13:46, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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.) Thats exactly what vkeybd does...only not QWERTY. More like AZSXFVGBHNJMKL. 8~} You patch it in via one of the many gui apps. I dont know if Reaktor registers a midi in port or not. > > Cheers, > Mark
