New release of amidicat program, connecting MIDI to stdin/out

New release of amidicat program, connecting MIDI to stdin/out

[Josh Lehan]

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/

The download is there.  Have fun, and thanks for reading this.

Josh Lehan

Re: New release of amidicat program, connecting MIDI to stdin/out

[Daniel Mack]

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

Re: New release of amidicat program, connecting MIDI to stdin/out

[Josh Lehan]

On 06/08/2010 01:02 AM, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 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

You're welcome!

On the mailing list a while ago, Takashi Iwai mentioned it would be nice
to have in alsa-utils.

That would be a great place for it, and it would fit in well with the
other "a" tools there.

Then, all repositories would get it, not just Debian :)

Josh Lehan