6 Jul
2014
6 Jul
'14
6:49 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Brett McCoy wrote:
You might want to take a look at some previous
implementations of
similar ideas (using console keyboard for MIDI). They use the ALSA
sequencer, I believe
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/
http://alsa.opensrc.org/Vkeybd
Some of that code will be useful, but both of these run in user space and
use the Xorg keyboard inputs. This means that if I have a synth connected
to virtual kb, as soon as I try to change the synth patch, I loose my
virtual keyboard access because keyboard follows focus to the synth
application (which is what we want almost always). That is why I have to
run as a system user.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net