send_midi(1)

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💌 send_midi — like, the manual page bestie

okay so this is send_midi(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual — yes, that one 💅

✨ NAME ✨

send_midi — send one or more MIDI events via ALSA or JACK 🎹✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It's a simple little utility that fires off MIDI events to literally any ALSA or JACK MIDI client you want, and it does it all through a terse command line format. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -A, --alsa — use the ALSA backend. this is the default one, so it's giving main character energy by default 👑
  • -J, --jack — use the JACK backend instead 🎧
  • -0, --zero-based — controls whether the channel & program numbers you use in events get a data offset applied. flip this flag on and the numbers are 0-127. leave it alone and the default range is 1-128 🔢
  • -h, --help — shows you a brief lil summary of how to use the program 🫶
  • --version — shows the program version ⭐

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

Send two events to LinuxSampler:0 while using the JACK backend. obsessed with this one:

send_midi -J LinuxSampler:0 NOTEON,1,60,127 CTRL,2,7,66

Send a SYSEX command to 14:0:

send_midi 14:0 SYSEX,F0,23,42,F7

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

See the online documentation at https://mididings.github.io/mididings/ for current info on mididings and its related tools. iykyk 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

Bugs? you must be kidding 😭 there are no bugs in this software. but if we happen to be wrong 🙈 submit a bug report with as much detail as possible at https://github.com/mididings/mididings/issues. fr fr, the more detail the better 🍓

ok that's the whole page bestie, go send some MIDI events ✨🧚

signed off with love — send_midi(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2026-08-13 💖🎀

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