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• alana314
  This would pair well with Midicard, the tiny credit-card-sized MIDI keyboard I make: https://midicard.com
• vunderba
  Nice job. Feels like there's a bit of misunderstanding of what this project is. It has nothing to do with audio - it's purely a means of mapping MIDI to shell commands.There was (still is) a very popular program called BOME Midi Translator that did something similar - think of it like AutoHotKey but specifically for midi.Back when I made heavy use of Kontakt libraries I got frustrated at the lack of an easy way to audition the patches (of which there could be hundreds on a single sampler). To get around it, I created a Bome script so when I pressed an unused button on my midi controller it would trigger a mouse click to advance to the next patch in my DAW and then send a note-on / note-off for C4 for half a second.Made previewing the sounds much easier.
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  Arkanosis
  That's nice!That may not seem like an obvious use-case when only thinking about a piano, but since it's mapping MIDI keys to commands, I guess it should be able — or at least no very far from being able — to map ergonomic MIDI controllers to actions that are not as ergonomic with the usual keyboard / mouse / trackball / touchpad most people use.I wrote what I believe is a similar tool but with completely different goals initially: https://github.com/Arkanosis/smhkd ; I use it with a cheap MIDI controller (namely the KORG nanoKONTROL2) and was considering using another one with motorized faders (namely the Icon Platform M).MIDI controllers are great for all kinds of non-musical things like: - setting the volume / balance / solo / mute for speakers / multiple headsets and mixing multiple applications (eg. using pactl); - setting the zoom level / brightness for camera / webcam (eg. using v4l2-ctl) ; - setting the source / brightness for monitors (eg. using ddcutil)…
• pimlottc
  Some other existing utilities for triggering commands with MIDI signals:- https://gitlab.com/enetheru/midi2input- https://midimonster.net/
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  ctoth
  How about chords? Melodies which are paths? Passwords? Lots of great potential here!
• sigseg1v
  This is one of those projects that would be 10x better with a video demonstration!
• smokel
  Ooh, let's spend next weekend doing this with my acoustic piano!
• gchamonlive
  This reminds me of the Symphonic which is featured in the show Halt and Catch Fire
• matthew_hre
  My Claude Code sessions are about to sound like the Breath of the Wild soundtrack
• shrubble
  I thought you might have “composable” pipelines!
• runamuck
  So I can run shell from a Miracle Piano connected to a NES running Linux?
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