[LAU] send a midi CC signal to my midi controller from bash

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Sun Oct 25 21:28:15 UTC 2015


Athanasios Silis wrote:
> You see I have the following midi port , which I can see from "aplaymidi"
> through port (14:0)
>> aplaymidi -l
>  Port    Client name                      Port name
>  14:0    Midi Through                     Midi Through Port-0
>
> however in amidi -l does not show this port.
>
> I understand client:14 is a software port, but it registers with jack
> properly - through the use of a2jmidid (shows up both in "ALSA" and "JACK"
> tabs in qjackctl connections window) and with aplaymidi.
>
> how can I send data to this port ?

Load the snd-virmidi driver.

(The "Through" port loops back all received data back to itself (to its
output).  The snd-virmidi ports route the data from the rawMIDI port to
the sequencer port, and vice versa.)


Regards,
Clemens


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