Alexandre Ratchov <alex@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:13:23AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: >> "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > On Wed, February 5, 2014 12:31 am, Mario Lang wrote: >> >> raf <rmouneyres@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> you'l probably be happy to know the existence of three great tools : >> >>> midish, linuxsampler and Nama. >> >>> 1) midish is a command line midi sequencer with a lot of great features >> >>> http://www.midish.org/ >> >> >> >> midish looks rather interesting. However, the manual.html basically >> >> just explains how to record data from an input device. Does latest >> >> midish support creating MIDI data from scratch, and if so, is there >> >> perhaps some examples on how to do that? >> >> >> > >> > Check this section : >> > >> > http://www.midish.org/manual.html#ev >> > >> > You can compose note on/off events and save the sequence as a song or >> > export the song to .mid >> >> A simple example on how to actually do that would be appreciated. > > Hi, > > It's kinda painful, as the tool was designed to work with an input > device. > > You could create a track and add events one by one, ex: > > onew piano {0 0} > tnew mytrack > taddev 1 0 0 {non piano 64 90} > taddev 1 1 0 {noff piano 64 0} > > see: > http://www.midish.org/manual.html#func_taddev > http://www.midish.org/manual.html#ev_ev > > you'll get warnings about unterminated notes and/or other > anomalies, that you can ignore until all events are added. Once > you're done, you could run tcheck to fix any anomaly, just in case. OH, that last paragraph was helpful. I was actually taken aback by the warnings when I did my own (incomplete) attempt to duplicate your example above. While I see (now) that midish was originally designed for a different use case (direct MIDI input) I still think it might be helpful for others to add a section to the manual which basically contains your posting I am replying to :-). The basic example on how to create MIDI events from scratch, and maybe a paragraph about why it is so cumbersome and a reference to tcheck regarding the warnings, would have been everything I needed when I read the manual :-). And mind you, I actually *read the manual* :-) > To make the process less painful, you could define routines to make > certain things automatic, depending on your needs. I will look into this, but honestly, from the syntax above, it doesn't look like midish can fullfil my requirements as explain in the beginning of this thread. I have learnt alot about its potential uses though, so this was productive, thank you. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
