example of sending note on/off to MIDI port (Timidity's virtual sequencer)

[Brolin Empey <f7@dccnet.com>]

Hello,

I want to add ALSA support to a MIDI program I wrote (in C) which 
currently supports only the Win32 API (using midiOutShortMsg).  More 
specifically, I want to do this using Timidity's virtual sequencer for 
playback of the output MIDI messages.  I can use playmidi (which uses 
the OSS API) or pmidi (which uses ALSA's API) to play MIDI files using 
Timidity's port (128:0).  After studying both of these application's 
sources, I tried without success to put together a minimal test program 
to simply send a note on and subsequent note off message using 
Timidity's port.

Does anyone have a simple example of how to do this?  It can use either 
the OSS API (e.g. /dev/sequencer interface) or ALSA's library.  I tried 
the rawmidi example, but could not get it to play anything using 
Timidity's port.

Thanks,
Brolin


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