music-bar Digest, Vol 27, Issue 29

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

On 16/07/10 16:16, Matt Picone wrote:
> On 7/16/2010 3:34 AM, music-bar-request at lists.music-bar.org wrote:
>> There's MIDI OX.
>>
>> a MIDI Scratchpad.
>>
> Yeah, I know about this.
>
> Their first tool comes close, but doesn't let you copy/paste hex code. I
> am stunned that nothing like this seems to be out there. No MIDI GUI
> toolkit? Whoah.
>
> If an enterprising developer were to offer such a product I predict it
> would do quite well as a 0.99 cent app...
>
> The Gordius Little Giant editor includes this function, but nested
> inside an app that's really for something else.

On Linux (maybe OSX?) you can use a hex editor to create a binary file, and then 
just copy that to a midi port:

  cat file.dat > /dev/midi

works the other way round, too.

Tony (HB)