On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 21:31 -0700, Devin Anderson wrote: Nice, it's in Arch's AUR repository. The advantage of a script using amidi might be, that sending sysEx for e.g. increasing filter values could be done. Since I'm a dino assembler coder for vintage computers, I still don't know how to get the checksums for a shell script (I didn't start to do anything ;), but I guess google will tell me. Another issue for using old synth perhaps is, that running status for Linux seemingly can't be turned on and off.