Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] patch MIDI apps together?
From: Jaroslav Kysela (perex_AT_suse.cz)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 14:29:31 EEST
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Stefan Nitschke wrote:
> Paul Winkler wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've seen occasional posts here regarding the possibility of some
> > kind of MIDI loopback. I have both OSS/Linux and Alsa 0.5.7
> > installed, and I can't figure out from the documentation of either
> > if such a thing already exists. I found an old message on l.a.d.
> > from PBD saying OSS already has some kind of midi loopback, but
> > (sorry if I'm dense) I can't find it.
> >
> > Basically I want to see if I can route the output of Jazz++ or some
> > other sequencer directly into a soft-synth (ANY soft synth...
> > TiMidity, Xsynth, aRts, what have you...)
>
> Its a good question ;) i tried a similar thing after upgrading to linux 2.2.x
> some time ago without success with OSS. It would be cool to connect
> e.g Jazz++ with a soft synth via a pipe or midi loopback but the
> dev/sequencer doesn't seem to implement such a thing. btw i use rtsynth
> which of course has support for "midi" pipes.
You may use virmidi module in ALSA. Also, any software synthesizer may act
as a sequencer client (user space driver).
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <perex_AT_suse.cz>
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com
ALSA project http://www.alsa-project.org
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