[LAU] midi over ethernet

[Brett McCoy]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 06:48 PM, Brett McCoy wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Atte André Jensen
>> <atte.jensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to send midi over ethernet between two jack clients running
>>> on different linux boxes? I don't need audio, just midi. I could buy a
>>> couple of midi interfaces, but since they both have ethernet that would be
>>> for free, and I expect such a solution to be at least as robust...
>>
>> You can use netjack for this, but if you are just doing MIDI and not
>> audio, I recommend multimidicast:
>>
>> http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast/
>>
>
> or yours truly qmidinet:
>  http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net
> which is exactly equivalent to the above but with a gui (system tray icon)
>
> oh, and it handles sysex messages that multimidicast doesn't, last time
> i tried

Oh, didn't know about qmidinet... will give that a try myself (been
using multimidicast for a good while but having a GUI for it would be
nice).

-- Brett
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