[linux-audio-user] Generating drones, take 2

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
mawali at news.icns.com hat gesagt: // mawali at news.icns.com wrote:

> According to the responses to my previous post. There does not seem to be 
> a way in linux to send MIDI command from my shell to a MIDI output 
> interface. 
> 
> The closest response I got was to use a MIDI controller (keyboard) press 
> the note and then pull the keyboard cable so it cannot send a stop (it 
> works but, I do believe there is a better way in linux).
> 
> For reference I want to be able to generate drone tones on my MIDI. I am 
> looking for a simple application (MIDI shell??) that would let me turn a 
> particular note on. I already have a sound card with the wavetable, this 
> sound card understands midi. Alsa is supposed to have a good midi api, so 
> how so I insert a midi event into my souncards midi output interface!!

Well, Pd (Pure Data) is a modular softsynth, that treats midi note
message simply as lists or pairs of note/velocity values. As a
note-off normally is just a note with velocity 0 cou could just omit
this. I attached a simple example patch for Pd that just sends a 
[60 100( note on message (which is a "C" with a decent velocity). If
you don't want Pd to open this window you could use 
"pd -nogui drone-c.pd" once to make a drone directly from the shell. 

There are also ways to remote control Pd over network but this might
be off-topic now.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__