Re: [linux-audio-dev] Basic MIDI question

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 02:53:02 EEST

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 01:47 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 19:38 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > I think it's me that's confused - as you can see I'm certainly not a
> > MIDI expert.
> >
> > When playing a MIDI file to a rawmidi port ...
>
> $man aplaymidi
>
> -p, --port=client:port,...
>
> Sets the sequencer port(s) to which the events
> in the MIDI file(s) are sent.
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> I think it is unpossible to make it use rawmidi.

ALSA takes care of the sequencer port<->rawmidi device translation.

> Says sequencer (which
> will do the timing.) Can you jack in after the sequencer has performed
> its magic, and you have the actual midi-stream?
>

I thought I was doing exactly what you suggect, by looking at the data
in the driver right before it goes to the hardware.

I'll just use a real sequencer for testing rather than aplaymidi.

Lee
Received on Tue Jul 25 04:15:05 2006

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