Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Crypto <crptdngl71@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> What I would like to do in a first place is "simply" control MIDI applications >> that run on my notebook via these MIDI messages. Or, if you will say it like >> that: I need a MIDI link from my MIDI organ to the applications running on my >> notebook. The commands are sent after triggering/switching/moving the turning >> knobs/pushbuttons/drawbars. > > at LAC 2006 (? it could have been 2005 or even 2004) there was a > presentation of an app that converted MIDI into X Events, allowing > MIDI to be used to control any X Window application even if it did not > use MIDI itself. i don't know if this app is still available, or how > well it worked, though the demonstration certainly did. You could make > MIDI trigger arbitrary buttons on the screen, move knobs, faders etc. > i'm not much of an advocate of this kind of approach, but its worth > being aware of. lac 2005, MidiKinesis, by Peter Brinkmann of TU Berlin: http://lac.zkm.de/2005/papers/peter_brinkmann.pdf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
