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From: est@hyperreal.org
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MIDI programming
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:17:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-94800580502574@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-94791780628504@msgid-missing>

> 	Can anyone give me a hint at writing a simple
> program to read MIDI keyboard input? I don't want to parse
> this input, just to test the presence of the keyboard under
> Linux.
> 
> 	Taras

dd bs=1 if=/dev/midi | od -t x1 --width=1

..works for me.  I strike a key and get:

0000000 fe
*
0000020 90
0000021 5d
0000022 35
0000023 fe
0000024 90
0000025 5d
0000026 00
0000027 fe
*

which is a bunch of activie sensing bytes, a note-on/note-off pair and
more active sensing bytes. :)

E

  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-01-15  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-14 23:22 MIDI programming 
2000-01-15  2:38 ` David Olofson
2000-01-15  7:17 ` est [this message]
2000-01-16 16:27 ` 

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