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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> > > cat /proc/sound?  No such device or filename.
> > > Was I supposed to load rosegarden first?
> >
> > No. Just activate sound (insmod sound, etc.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
> This time it worked (kernel 2.2.16 - I had been using 2.4.31 and sb_lib)

With kernel 2.4.31 I still get 'no such device or filename' for both.

> cat /proc/sound or cat /dev/sndstat:
>
> ...
> Samuel, could you take a look at the midish package at my site?  It is
> supposed to record from command line.  http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl

midish-bl2.tgz

It was very easy to compile (except rmidish front-end did not compile).


Midish comes with smfplay and smfrecord, which are simple scripts that do 
some basic jobs.  Use the full midish for fancier things.

smfplay -x -d mididevice filename.mid   should play to external device.

The man page for midish says the device is /dev/rmidiN

I can                  mknod /dev/rmidi c 35 64

(or make rmidi0 and link rmidi to it) but how do I link /dev/rmidi to my 
actual midi device, i. e., what is my actual midi device (/dev/? ).

-d /dev/sequencer or /dev/midi00 do not work.

I found an 'rmidi' midi player for ALSA.  Do I need ALSA to use midish?

Could one write a simple script to send input from the external midi 
device to a file, then stop sending when you hit Ctrl-C?

This should not be much harder than double-sided printing or playing 
streaming audio with mpg123.