[LAU] executing arbitrary bash scripts from midi notes

[Athanasios Silis]

ace!
thank you all for the replies!
i'll get into it the following days.
I did not mention that before - it still shouldn't change much - I hope
these can work in a headless environment. right?

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Tito Latini <tito.01beta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 12:27:44AM +0200, Athanasios Silis wrote:
> > hello there,
> > is there an application that I am missing that allows programming
> execution
> > of arbitrary bash scripts (or others) following pressing specific midi
> > notes?
> > googling about it did not provide any results..
> >
> > Thank you for your help
>
> A shell script could be enough. The follow example uses `amidi'
> with a virtual rawmidi port:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # midistraggo
>
> do_something()
> {
>         case $1 in
>         3C) play doooo.wav & ;;
>         3E) play reeee.wav & ;;
>         40) play miiii.wav & ;;
>         41) play faaaa.wav & ;;
>          *) play boooo.wav & ;;
>         esac
> }
>
> amidi -p virtual -d | while read -n2 st; do
>         if [[ ${st} == 90 ]]; then
>                 read -n3 key
>                 do_something ${key}
>         fi
> done
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