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- ALSA sequencer connectors over network
- ver.0.1
- Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Takashi Iwai
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- * ASEQNET
-
- aseqnet is a sequencer client which sends/receives events over
- network. Suppose two hosts (hostA and hostB) connected by network.
- You need to run ALSA system on both hosts. Then, start aseqnet as a
- server on hostA:
-
- hostA% aseqnet
- sequencer opened: 128:0
-
- A user client 128 with port 0 was opened. (The client number may
- vary.) At next, start client on hostB. The argument is the hostname
- where server is running.
-
- hostB% aseqnet hostA
- sequencer opened: 132:0
-
- Now events sent to hostA:128:0 is transferred to hostB:132:0, and vice
- versa.
-
- You can connect these ports arbitrary to other sequencer ports.
- For example, connect hostB:132:0 to a MIDI output device 65:0. The
- aconnect utility can be used for this:
-
- hostB% aconnect 132:0 65:0
-
- Events to hostA:128:0 will be delivered indirectly to hostB:65:0.
- You'll hear MIDI sounds as following:
-
- hostA% pmidi -p 128:0 foo.mid
-
- The multiple clients may exist simultaneously. If hostC is connected
- as a client to hostA, events from from hostA are sent to all connected
- network clients, hostB and hostC. However, only one connection is
- allowed from a client to a server.
-
- To disconnect network, stop all clients before server by ctrl-C or
- sending signal to them. The server will automatically quit.
-
- The available options are:
-
- -p port : specify the TCP port number or TCP service name.
- Default value is 40002.
- -s addr : explicit read-subscription to the given address
- (client:addr).
- -d addr : explicit write-subscription to the given address.
- -v : verbose mode.
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