6 Feb
2010
6 Feb
'10
1:33 p.m.
On Saturday, February 6, 2010, james morris wrote:
I want to send a random midi note each time a bash
script is called...
Not for anything useful, just experimenting...
I guess the tool would best be connecting to a midi-through port rather
than hard-coding a particular synth?
In addidion to the "amidi" ALSA raw midi utility that has been suggested, you
can also easily write from a bash script to character devices, either the OSS
(/dev/midi*) or the ALSA ones (/dev/snd/midiC*). You can even create a
virtual MIDI port using the ALSA module snd-virmidi, so you can write chars
to a /dev/midi* node and connect the other side (the ALSA sequencer port) to
a synth.
The tool would just be required to send a single midi
note to some port.
The note to be sent should be specifiable on command line, along with
length/velocity ... probably would be enough.
Any ideas?
As an example, here is a bash script that can be used with cron, to play
hourly a tune and some strokes.
Regards,
Pedro