Hi,
I would like to know how I go about creating a small program that lets
me send /received patch sets ("banks") into my synthesizers via SysEx MIDI
communication.I know all about the actual required SysEx parameters, and I had also once written such a program for OSS (simply using read()/write() to/from /dev/midi), but now I'd like to port this to ALSA. As far as I can tell, there is either the "rawmidi" interface or the more complex(?) way by going through snd_seq_open(...). I have some problems with rawmidi; if I try the test program from the current (0.9.0beta10) alsa-lib source the way it suggests, I always get: franky@faramir:/u1/src/ALSA/0.9.0beta10/alsa-lib-0.9.0beta10/test> ./rawmidi -i 0 0 ALSA lib rawmidi.c:184:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi 0 snd_rawmidi_open 0 failed: -2 The snd-rawmidi module is loaded, though, and cat /proc/asound/devices gives: 0: [0- 0]: ctl 4: [0- 0]: hardware dependent 8: [0- 0]: raw midi 19: [0- 3]: digital audio playback 26: [0- 2]: digital audio capture 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture 1: : sequencer 9: [0- 1]: raw midi 10: [0- 2]: raw midi 33: : timer 32: [1- 0]: ctl 40: [1- 0]: raw midi 49: [1- 1]: digital audio playback 48: [1- 0]: digital audio playback 56: [1- 0]: digital audio capture Is there anything wrong about rawmidi? Is this driver "orphaned", or is the demo app incompatible with the current interface? Anyway, I believe going with the sequencer is the better solution anyway; for this one, I'd like to get some _short_ setup hints, a la "first create a port, then connect foo to bar, create an xxx event structure, fill it with data and send that off to your port with snd_xxx". Could anyone give me such a setup list, or point me at a source that does something like this in an as readable as possible fashion? I believe I can find out the rest, I just need someone to get me started in the right direction :-). Thanks, Frank _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
