On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Len Ovens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello new to this list but realized I was asking a lot of development > questions in LAU that would probably be better here. > > I am writing a program that takes some system input from the keyboard and > redirects it as midi. This is to allow: > - a second keyboard to be used as a midi control > - switching the system keyboard back and forth between normal and midi > controler > - using a potion of the system keyboard as a midi controler (the numeric pad > for example) > > The advantage of this over keyboard short cuts is that this will work the > same no matter what the desktop focus may be. > > I am (as many people do) writing this for my own use, but will make it > available for others who may have similar needs. You might want to take a look at some previous implementations of similar ideas (using console keyboard for MIDI). They use the ALSA sequencer, I believe http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/ http://alsa.opensrc.org/Vkeybd -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
