From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Lehan Subject: Re: Newbie question: Sending untimed MIDI data to ALSA seq Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:17:02 -0800 Message-ID: <4B4E1C2E.1010209@krellan.com> References: <4B490D93.1050506@krellan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from server3.hostdango.com (server3.hostdango.com [67.222.146.219]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C026410382A for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:17:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: 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: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Josh Lehan List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:13:23 -0800, > Josh Lehan wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Newbie question: I'm wondering about sending untimed MIDI data to the >> ALSA sequencer subsystem. >> >> The application would be for a "beep"-like program, from the command >> line, that instead of making beeps, would play MIDI instruments to make >> better-sounding beeps. >> >> Does such a program already exist? > > I don't know of such thing, too. > It'd be nice to have in alsa-utils. Thanks for the suggestion! A few days ago, I started writing a program to do just this. It is coming along nicely. When it's finished, I'll post a link to it here, for your review. Josh