Re: [linux-audio-user] Next question re midi

On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:08, M P Smoak wrote:
> >On Thursday 12 January 2006 20:36, Lee Revell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:32 -0500, M P Smoak wrote:
> >> > On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:11, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> > > That's not how ALSA MIDI works, you can't just cat a
> >> > > .mid file to a device node. Use aplaymidi.
> >> > >
> >> > > Lee
> >> >
> >> > Speaking of aplaymidi, how do I pause a playback
> >>
> >> Ctrl-Z
> >
> >How do I restart it?
> >
> >> > , back it up
> >>
> >> You can't do that
> >
> >I guess I can't forward either?
> >
> >> > or
> >> > just stop it
> >>
> >> Ctrl-C
> >
> >Elegant in it's simplicity.
> >
> >> > , once it's playing. man aplaymidi tells me nothing.
> >>
> >> You need to get a sequencer if you want full featured MIDI
> >> playback, aplaymidi is just a simple utility, a toy
> >> basically.
> >>
> >> Lee
> >
> >You mean to say that to play back a midi filed with pause,
> > back up or forward, I need to use a sequencer?
> >
> >You're saying that there is no midi player in linux that
> > allows the simple controls of a tape player?
> >
> >I'm running rh9/planet ccrma, I can't find a player there. I
> >figured that's because I'm a slowhead. Is there none?
> >
> >Is there a midi file player for the 2.6 kernal, fc?? kernel?
> >
> >If there's nothing, I'm starting to think linux is real weak
> >on midi playback.
>
> If you have kde installed, take a look at kmid.
>
> >By the way, could you comment on my recent question on tuning
> >a midi keyboard?
>
> Its probably more accurate than the piano tuners tuning forks
> if its had any fine tuning done reset back to no corrections.
> The crystals used as the reference generators are typically
> better than .001% accurate and you can tune the piano/whatever
> to the keyboard with good confidence that you are at least as
> correct as the tuning fork the piano tuner used to use.

Please see my post on 2006-01-10 subject Midi tuning control.
Thanks.
Received on Fri Jan 13 08:15:08 2006