[LAU] sending program change from the commandline

Emanuel Rumpf xbran at web.de
Sun May 8 08:40:24 UTC 2011


2011/5/6 Renato <rennabh at gmail.com>:

>
> isn't there some python module that lets you easily create an alsa midi
> client and send midi data?
>


Try PyPortMidi with PortMidi

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~harrison/pyportmidi.html

Today, there are countless other packages (search for the midi section):
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic

But *beware* to use python for any serious (real-time) midi-processing.
Timing is bad and unreliable.

Eventually the serpent language would offer an alternative then.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/aura/serpent-info.htm


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E.R.


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