[linux-audio-user] Linux/Windows/Mac MIDI over LAN?

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> On 1/20/06, Kjetil S. Matheussen <kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Mark Knecht:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>   Is there any solution for removing MIDI cables and doing MIDI over
>>>> Ethernet for all three platforms?
>>> 
>>> I know that midishare has support for eth midi for at least linux and mac.
>>> (tried it, it works very well). And I would be surprised if it hadn't
>>> support for eth midi for windows as well.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Kjetil,
>>   Thanks for the info. I'm checking this out early on this Sunday
>> morning. My eyes are barely open. Is this an app or a library for
>> programmers?
>
> Midishare is a library for midi-communication. A bit like alsa-seq.
>
>
>> I found this link:
>> 
>> http://midishare.sourceforge.net/
>> 
>
> Yepp.
>
>
>> To me this looks more like a library of programming functions. Can you
>> point me toward an executable that I could put on my Mac and Linux
>> boxes to try out?
>> 
>
> There are various tools to communicate with the net and with alsa.
> I don't know where they are hidden. Probably, they are in the main
> source package...
>

It probably is. Heres the listing of files for the planet-ccrma midishare 
package:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/6/idpl/1056156

If I remember correctly, you run /usr/bin/msInetDriver to start a 
midishare ethernet driver, you use /usr/bin/msRawMidi to connect alsa 
(via virmidi) to midishare, and you use /usr/bin/msconnect to 
graphically connect everything together.

There are similar tools for mac, and probably for windows as well.



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