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amidi

amidi [options]

Read and write raw MIDI files (.syx format, without timing infor-

mation) to ALSA ports. For standard MIDI (.mid) files, use

aplaymidi and arecordmidi.

Options

-a, --active-sensing

Record and send active-sensing (FEh) bytes in MIDI

commands. By default, these bytes are ignored.

-d, --dump

Output all received data directly to the screen.

-h, --help

Display help information and quit.

-l, --list-devices

List all hardware MIDI ports.

-L, --list-rawmidis

List all RawMIDI definitions. Useful for debugging configura-

tion files.

-p, --port=name

Use the specified port. This overrides the port set in the

configuration file. If neither this flag nor the configuration file

sets a port, the default is port 0 on device 0, which may or may

not exist.

-r, --receive=filename

Write data from the port specified with the -p or --port flag to

the file named here. This will be a raw file, and should end in

.syx. Unless you use the -a option, it will not contain any

Active Sensing (FEh) bytes.

-s, --send=filename

Send the file to the port specified with the -p or --port flag.

Use raw (.syx) MIDI files only.

-S, --send-hex="hex-numbers..."

Send a string of hexadecimal numbers to the port specified

with the -p or --port flag.

-t, --timeout=n

Stop listening after n seconds of receiving ...