"Peter Billam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is there a simple ascii computer-keyboard-based MIDI-keyboard ?
> I mean so that z plays a D, s plays an Eb, x plays an E, c plays
> an F, f plays an F# and so on ?
> Ideally, key-compatible with the way Bristol uses the keyboard...

Download here:-
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/
Linux packages in the download area.
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Barry Graham
Melbourne, Australia

Peter Billam wrote:

> So: What's the way to feed real-time MIDI events into
> the Linux/ALSA setup from a Perl or Python program ?

standard output to standard input?

> (I've generated lots of .mid files and fed them into aplaymidi
> and timidity, but I've not generated any real-time MIDI yet :-()

I've never tried what you're discussing here, but it seems that with
a file name of "-", aplaymidi (at least; I haven't checked timidity)
will read from standard input. Pipe the output of your Perl/Python
script (in the format of a .mid file) to standard input of aplaymidi
and see if that provides the result you're after.

I hope that helps ...

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