keyboard bindings?

[bburdette]

Is there a list of keyboard bindings anyplace? Would like to use keypresses to control it from my USB foot pedal. Thx!

[bburdette]

Also, is it possible to issue commands from a script, like from bash? Is midi the only external command type?

[eldstal]

This probably isn't the best answer, but the midimonster project lets you convert between various signal and event formats such as MIDI, Joysticks, keyboard input, etc.

You can configure it to take exclusive control of your foot pedal, and then get it to send MIDI signals for the various "keypresses" from the pedal.

Midimonster has JACK support, but it hasn't been stable for me. As a fallback, it works well to use a2jmidid to forward ALSA MIDI devices (i.e. midimonster) into the JACK system and from there you can plug it into loopers.

[bburdette]

@eldstal that all sounds like a huge pain, lol. I've started using ardour to record my practice loops instead and that's a nice solution. Would be nice to have a simple looper controllable by a foot pedal but if I have to use jack and route midi and etc then forget it.

[eldstal]

Oh, if you're not using JACK in the first place it doesn't need it. Midimonster is just a handy way to turn whatever controller you do have into a MIDI controller, so you can use it in applications that don't support other protocols.

If anyone else comes by looking for a solution, here's an example configuration that is sufficient:

[backend evdev]
  detect = on

[evdev kbd]
  device = /dev/input/my_footpedal_device
  output = keys
  exclusive = on


[backend midi]
  name = MidiMonster
  detect = on

[midi footpad]
  write = "Midi Through"


[map]
  kbd.EV_KEY.KEY_SPACE > footpad.ch0.note9