7 Jul
2014
7 Jul
'14
8:59 a.m.
On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Flávio Schiavoni wrote:
It sounds to me like a keylogger as the input + MIDI
(Jack or ALSA) as
output. Maybe a ring buffer or something in between.
If a keylogger is the kind of input you wish:
https://www.thc.org/papers/writing-linux-kernel-keylogger.txt
Key logger yes, but not built into the kernel... I remember rolling a
kernel with the install (before modules showed up) and for every update
too, but I already have examples that work after the kernel, but before X.
Trying to guess a naive code implementation, I foresee
two problems:
- If one press a key and keep it pressed, the computer keyboard
repeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat the key, generating several NOTE_ON midi
events.
Yes, that can be generated inside the kb. And as I want to use a USB Kb,
it could be worse. I think the typmatic rate can be changed though... Yup,
if X can turn it off, so can I. actkbd allows setting changes based on key
up or down.
- Without a high level API I don´t know if you will
have a KEY_RELEASE
event to generate a NOTE_OFF event. If you have it you can solve the
former problem.
According to what I have read (I may be wrong, or it may not apply to all
KB) when the kb repeats it sends both on and off. So turning it off seems
like a good idea.
I wasn't thinking of making a synth kb to turn notes off and on, but some
of the sw seems to do that just fine, X based or event based.
I want to do this in steps:
- Use a laptop extra number kb for transport control.
- Split the system kb to do the same thing
- play with a second keyboard see if I can get encoders to make sense.
This is the hardware I have on hand. If it works the way I want I will try
further mods. The LSMI project puts it into words better than I do. It
also says old AT kb are best.... I have one, but do not want break it
because the touch is so nice, I have been buying MB that it will work
with. USB kb are cheap at $3 if you know where to look. I can afford to
break one. I will never be able to press all the keys at the same time,
there will many key combinations that will not work too, but there may be
still a lot of uses for it.
The big thing is it will teach me more about code and the system. I could
just go and buy a midi controler.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net