Midish is a MIDI sequencer/filter implemented as a shell-like interpreter.

Midish is an open-source MIDI sequencer/filter for Unix-like operating systems (developped and tested on OpenBSD and Linux). Implemented as a simple command-line interpreter (like a shell) it's intended to be lightweight, fast and reliable for real-time performance.

Important features:

* multiple MIDI devices handling
* synchronization to external audio/MIDI hardware/software
* real-time MIDI filtering/routing (controller mapping, keyboard splitting, ...)
* track recording, metronome
* basic track editing (insert, copy, delete, ...)
* progressive track quantisation
* import and export of standard MIDI files
* tempo and time-signature changes
* system exclusive messages handling
* ...

Midish is open-source software distributed under a 2-clause BSD-style license (compatible with GPL). Currently in development (contributions are welcome), it can safely be used for sequencing and filteringWhat is midish?

Midish is an open-source MIDI sequencer/filter for Unix-like operating systems (developped and tested on OpenBSD and Linux). Implemented as a simple command-line interpreter (like a shell) it's intended to be lightweight, fast and reliable for real-time performance.

Important features:

* multiple MIDI devices handling
* synchronization to external audio/MIDI hardware/software
* real-time MIDI filtering/routing (controller mapping, keyboard splitting, ...)
* track recording, metronome
* basic track editing (insert, copy, delete, ...)
* progressive track quantisation
* import and export of standard MIDI files
* tempo and time-signature changes
* system exclusive messages handling
* ...

Midish is open-source software distributed under a 2-clause BSD-style license (compatible with GPL). Currently in development (contributions are welcome), it can safely be used for sequencing and filtering.

Support.

A brief user manual (in progress) is available in the source tar-ball. There is also a mailing-list about midish (archives are here); feel free to send your questions, bug reports and feedback to midish[at]caoua[dot]org.
Download
Refer to the documentation for the installation procedure.

Source tar-balls:

* midish-1.0.1.tar.gz - stable release from jan 21, 2010 (recommended)
* midish.tar.gz - development snapshot from dec 7, 2009

Precompiled binary packages are also available.

Download:

• [midish_0.3.0-1.dsc]
• [midish_0.3.0.orig.tar.gz]
• [midish_0.3.0-1.diff.gz]

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