MIDISNOOP(1)

💖 MIDISNOOP 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to midisnoop — the manual page for a MIDI monitor and prober for the Jack Audio Connection Kit. yes that's the whole vibe. it's giving "tiny tool, big energy." 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

midisnoop — MIDI monitor and prober for Jack Audio Connection Kit. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

midisnoop

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no drama. she just runs. 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so this manual page documents briefly the midisnoop. short and sweet, we love a concise queen. 👑

and lowkey important context: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so like… we made one. you're welcome. 🫶

so what does she actually DO? midisnoop can be used to monitor a MIDI device and/or software, and to send MIDI messages to a MIDI port to see how the device/software responds. it's literally the "poke it and see what happens" of MIDI. 😭🔥

fr fr: you watch the MIDI traffic, you poke it with messages, you observe the response. main character debugging energy. 🧚

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• jackd(1) — the Jack daemon, aka the whole reason this exists. go read that one too bestie. 🌈

💖 AUTHOR 💖

midisnoop was written by Devin Anderson <surfacepatterns@gmail.com>. 👑

This manual page was written by Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes@seznam.cz> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). no gatekeeping, periodt. 💅

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💜 this little love letter was born on February 11, 2013, and it lives under the name MIDISNOOP(1) in the manual. slay, goodbye, go probe some MIDI 🎀✨🦋