Midizap

What other apps and distros do you use to round out your studio?

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Midizap

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midizap lets you control your multimedia applications using MIDI, the venerable "Musical Instrument Digital Interface" protocol which has been around since the 1980s. Modern MIDI controllers are usually USB class devices which don't require any special interface or driver, and they are often much cheaper than more specialized gear. With midizap you can leverage these devices to control just about any X11-based application. To these ends, it translates Jack MIDI input into X keyboard and mouse events, and optionally MIDI output. It does this by matching the class and title of the focused window against the regular expressions for each application section in its configuration (midizaprc) file. If a regex matches, the corresponding set of translations is used. If a matching section cannot be found, or if it doesn't define a suitable translation, the program falls back to a set of default translations.
https://github.com/agraef/midizap

Has anyone tried this? It sounds really interesting and similar to what you used to be able to do with bomes and autohotkey in windows.
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Re: Midizap

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Ajust window sizes and positions with midi controller :-)

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thats cool, though I don't really have a practical use for it. Albert is a capable dev though so I'm sure its great.
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