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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Newbie question: Sending untimed MIDI data to ALSA
 seq
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:39:01 +0100
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Josh Lehan wrote:
> I also looked at "amidi", which features a -S option to send in untimed
> MIDI bytes, but unfortunately, that addresses an entirely different
> namespace.  Evidently, it only speaks to "RawMIDI" devices, of which
> TiMidity is not.

Try the snd-virmidi driver.  It is intended to make sequencer ports
available as OSS midi devices, but you also get RawMIDI ports for free.


HTH
Clemens