On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Len Ovens <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
Hello new to this list but realized I was asking a lot
of development
questions in LAU that would probably be better here.
I am writing a program that takes some system input from the keyboard and
redirects it as midi. This is to allow:
- a second keyboard to be used as a midi control
- switching the system keyboard back and forth between normal and midi
controler
- using a potion of the system keyboard as a midi controler (the numeric pad
for example)
The advantage of this over keyboard short cuts is that this will work the
same no matter what the desktop focus may be.
I am (as many people do) writing this for my own use, but will make it
available for others who may have similar needs.
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
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