[LAU] midi record and play

[Bob van der Poel]

Okay Julien ... looks like a replay of what we did a year or so ago.
I'm thinking I'm a complete idiot each time I try midish!


> Hello Bob!
>  So if you just want to record the audio output of your synth it should be
> possible with midish. In your midishrc have a line like:
> dnew 0 "20:0" rw # your soundcards ALSASEQ number

I just installed midish from Ubuntu. No midishrc file created in the
install, so I put the one in /usr/share/docs/midish into /etc.
Uncompressed it and add the dnew line from above.

And ... the test:

 bob$ midish
dnew: no such proc

So, let's take out the dnew from the /etc/midishrc file.

Now, it runs ... but no play.

 bob$ midish
import "bridge.mid"
p
press control-C to finish
^C


Okay, assuming the port isn't set. Perhaps...

 bob$ midish
devattach 0 "20:0" rw
import "bridge.mid"
p
20:0: No such file or directory
press control-C to finish

So, getting somewhere?

Now, we'll try smfplay:

bob$ smfplay -d 20:0 bridge.mid
20:0: No such file or directory
press control-C to finish
^C

Again, I have no idea



>  Then in midish:
> import "midifile.mid" # quotes needed!
> [start audio recording]
> p
> [turn to your synth and play]
> s
> [stop audio recording, done]
>  But you can also use aplaymidi:
> aplaymidi -p 20:0 midifile.mid

Oh yes, aplaymidi works just fine. Only it doesn't record :) And
arecordmidi is great too, but it doesn't play.


>  Even simpler.
>  If you want to record the incoming midi data from your synth, instead of
> the audio performance, then you would be better off with midish. Start the
> way described, but after import:
> tnew my_track
> inew my_channel {0 0} # have my_channel be midi device 0 and channel 0
> ci my_channel
>  Then you should be able to do:
> r
> s
>  This should playback the imported tracks, while recording your new synth
> input.

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