I'm fond of PD for midi testing. It doesn't use the ALSA sequencer interface but it gives you the actual numbers of incoming note/velocity/channel events, CC's and has a random noteout test. -lee On May 6, 2004, at 3:36 PM, 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 > >