From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Mack Subject: Re: New release of amidicat program, connecting MIDI to stdin/out Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:02:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20100608080251.GD2695@buzzloop.caiaq.de> References: <4C0DF2A8.8000305@krellan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from buzzloop.caiaq.de (buzzloop.caiaq.de [212.112.241.133]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B188110380C for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:02:55 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C0DF2A8.8000305@krellan.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Josh Lehan Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:35:04AM -0700, Josh Lehan wrote: > Hello. On the mailing list a few months ago, mentioned a program I had > written, then called "midicat". Found out there's another product by > that name. So, the new name of the program is "amidicat". The "a" > prefix also clarifies that it's an ALSA program. > > It's a program that connects the ALSA MIDI sequencer to standard input > and output. Among other things, this is fun for prototyping quick MIDI > one-liners on the command line, such as "echo 903C7F | amidicat" to play > Middle C. > > I have made a new release of the program, which is basically unchanged, > except for a few bug fixes (thanks to Valgrind for discovering a minor > memory leak). The biggest improvement is that there's now a manual page > and a DocBook documentation page. > > Here's the webpage for amidicat, if interested: > > http://www.krellan.com/amidicat/ Again, thanks. Any chance that any Debian maintainer reading this can take care for bringing this useful tool to the repositories? Daniel