Re: [timidity-talk] how to turn a midi keyboard into an electronic piano

[Bob v. d. P. <bo...@me...>]

I didn't know you could do this ... but you can. Easy.

1. Startup timidity as a sequencer client.

         timidity -iA &

2. Determine what ports you have. Use aplaymidi -l (aconnect -l doesn't work
on my box). I have a number of timidity ports 128:0, 128:1, etc and a port
for my keyboard 16:0

3. Connect the keyboard and timidity ports (this is probably the step you
missed). In my case:

    aconnect 16:0 128:0

Now play the keyboard. Timidity plays the sounds.

Cool.


On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Zhang Weiwu <zha...@re...> wrote:

> Hello. I have a midi keyboard, once connected to my PC, cat /dev/midi
> would produce junk text when I press the keys, thus I consider it
> properly installed.
>


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