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MIDICAT(1) General Commands Manual MIDICAT(1)

NAME

midicat
send to or receive from MIDI ports.

SYNOPSIS

midicat [-d] [-i port] [-o port]

DESCRIPTION

The midicat utility receives MIDI data from the given input MIDI port and/or sends it to the given output MIDI port. The options are as follows:
Dump transferred data in hex on stderr.
port
Use this sndio(7) MIDI port as input instead of stdin.
port
Use this sndio(7) MIDI port as output instead of stdout.

EXAMPLES

Dump data received from rmidi/0 to stderr:
$ midicat -di rmidi/0 >/dev/null

Send data from rmidi/0 to midithru/0:

$ midicat -i rmidi/0 -o midithru/0

SEE ALSO

midi(4), sndio(7)
June 3, 2019 Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64