amidi

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.

-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 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. 
  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 no data.

-V,–version

  Display version information and quit.