Re: Use of Amidi and/or adeqdump inside gambas

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, October 17th, 2026 at 11:10, Hartmut Wagener <hartmut.w.wagener@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi together,
> 
> i want to create a tool to be able to send Sysex-requests to
> midi-synthesizers by amidi and receive info by amidi and/or aseqdump.
> 
> What possibilities? Do i need to call amidi and aseqdump as commands or
> are the libraries that i can use?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your Help
> 
> 

Hi Hartmut,

I don't know if there are any specific libraries you can interface with but what I do understand is amidi is a command line tool.

So, have a look at process streams and shell command. That should enable you to do what you do in a terminal using amidi, but from within Gambas.

Process: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/process
Shell: https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/shell


gbWilly

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