[Michal Seta mis@music.mcgill.ca] | | dear linux-pd gurus | | Does anyone have experience in sending MIDI from one application to | another under linux? Specifically, I would like fiddle with keykit and | send | MIDI data to pd. Keykit has support for alsa (but since I don't have a | MIDI | interface for my PC I can't even test if the MIDI is getting anywhere | but I get | no error messages so I assume all is fine... stupid, huh?...).
virtual midi device designed for such purposes. so basically you can feed it midi in and out through the /dev/midi? devices which are associated with it.
after you have loaded the module, you'll have to connect two ports of this virtual card that will communicate between PD and KeyKit, for this you have to use 'aconnect'.
if you have oss, there's a midi loopback device (i've never used)
else if you want to hack something fast you can use a named pipe
('mkfifo mymidi') and give the path of this fifo to your applications as needed. But the performance is poorer than the solutions i mentionned above..
-- n ++k