Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] midi input forwarder ?
From: Josh Green (jgreen_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 23:44:03 EEST
On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 09:43, Yaacov Akiba Slama wrote:
> 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
>
>
ALSA is probably the best solution. The ALSA sequencer is quite advanced
and allows you to connect multiple sequencer devices (programs, external
MIDI ports, etc) together. A program called "aseqnet" that comes with
alsa-utils will do what you describe.
--
Josh Green
Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net)
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