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Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

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> Clemens Ladisch escribe:

> > A virmidi port has two ends: a rawmidi port and a sequencer port.

> > Anything written to the rawmidi device will be sent to all ports connnected

> > to the sequencer port, but cannot be read back from /dev/midi?.

> > Any messages arriving at the sequencer port can be read from the rawmidi

> > device, but are not sent to any other sequencer port.

>

> Does this mean that a virmidi port just serves for sending copies of

> MIDI data to different sequencers/sound generators?

The purpose of the snd-virmidi module is to serve as a bridge between old

programs that understand only /dev/midi* and new program that use the ALSA

sequencer API.
> Can I use vkeybd or a MIDI keyboard connected to the MIDI in of a MIDI

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> interface to play a virtual synthesizer without using virmidi?

Yes; vkeybd, the MIDI in, and the virtual synthesizer all use ALSA sequencer

ports.
HTH

Clemens