Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] midi input forwarder ?
From: sean whalen (lucidity_AT_gmx.net)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 23:27:00 EEST
if you have ethernet set up, there are programs for windows that share midi
ports between computers. i wrote an application in java to do this same
thing -- you would need x windows and have java setup on linux. if anyone
is interested mail me off list.
-sean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yaacov Akiba Slama" <slamaya_AT_yahoo.com>
To: <linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: [linux-audio-user] midi input forwarder ?
> Hello !
>
> I have two computers in a network;
> C1 is a laptop with a good audio out but without midi port.
> C2 is a desktop with a VIBRA16X integrated audio chip. It has a midi
> port, but its audio output is not working very well.
> I have also a midi keyboard and I want to connect it to C2 and to hear
> the output of iiwusynth (for instance) in C1.
> So, I have two options:
> 1) Execute the synth in C2 and use a sound forwarding solution to send
> the sound to C1. I tried Esound, NAS with audiooss without success. Evev
> if it worked, the latency would be enormous.
> 2) Forward the midi input from C2 to C1 and do the synth in C1. This
> seems the best solution, but I didn't find any software to do that. So
> my question is :
> Do you know how to give a computer access to a midi port/device of
> another one ? In fact I need only read access to the device (no
> write/ioctl).
>
> Thanks a lot,
> ya
>
>
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