zmidimap

Map midi signals coming from ALSA midi devices to shell commands

Soft dependencies: alsa-utils
Hard dependencies: aseqdump

Installing

Package

Debian/Ubuntu

Download the .deb package then run: sudo dpkg -i zmidimap.deb ; sudo apt -f install

Standalone

Move executable zmidimap to your PATH directory

From source

git clone https://github.com/zawwz/zmidimap.git
cd zmidimap
make && sudo make install  

Usage

zmidimap [options] <map file>
This is a daemon program, it does not start any background process by itself and needs to be constantly running for the mapping to be active

Map File / Configuration

See example.mim for an example file
For more details see zmidimap --help

Options

To scan for devices use zmidimap -l
To scan a device's inputs use zmidimap -p <client name>

For more details see zmidimap --help