[linux-audio-dev] Alsa Sequencer Raw MIDI Data

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Wed Aug 31 08:11:26 UTC 2005


Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> I'm currently developing an application which should be controlled via
> MIDI. I'd like to use the Alsa Sequencer API, so I can use aconnect and
> friends to connect my app to other apps and MIDI hardware. However I
> like to get access and send the raw MIDI stream.

The whole point of the sequencer API is to exchange (already parsed)
messages instead of raw MIDI data, but the ALSA library contains a
helper object to convert between them:
http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___m_i_d_i___event.html


HTH
Clemens




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