From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:35:41 +0000 Subject: Re: /dev/midi apps Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Bertrand Lee (bertrand@ieee.org) said: > Are there any apps that use /dev/midi for playback/recording? If you mean the external midi/MPU401 device, playmidi supports playback to it via the -e switch. Recording I'm not sure about. > All the apps that I have come across (rosegarden, playmidi, etc.) seem to > use /dev/sequencer, which my soundcard (es1370) does not support. Yup, the es137x do not have a hardware midi sequencer. To play files, you'd most likely have to use something like timidity. Bill