Name
amidi
Synopsis
amidi [options]Read and write raw MIDI files (.syx format, without timing information) 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 received data directly to the screen as hexadecimal bytes.
- -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 configuration 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, which is a raw file, and should end in .syx. Unless you use the -a option, the data does not include 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 no data.
- -V, --version
Display version information and quit.
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