Well, it depends on what you mean with "programmatically".
If you just need automatic connections and you run jack, you can use
jack-plumbing.
You could also use aplaymidi/arecordmidi outputs and then use aconnect, as
pointed out by Clemens.
If, otherwise, you need much more control, you'll need to interface with
the pyalsa's alsaseq python module, possibly using an event loop (I used to
interface with a Qt's QThread).
Unfortunally, pyalsa doesn't support python 3 yet (and I really hope
they'll fix it).
You have to create an input "monitor" port, and connect it to the alsaseq
system client and its system announce port, which notifies of every change
in the alsa MIDI graph.
Have a look at this:
https://github.com/MaurizioB/MidiGraph/blob/master/midigraph/__init__.py#L93
Then, within the thread you use to monitor the graph changes, you can
connect ports if their names/properties suit your needs.
Remember that alsaseq creates an event for every client created
(alsaseq.SEQ_EVENT_CLIENT_START) and then an event for each port created
(alsaseq.SEQ_EVENT_PORT_START). Also, when a client is "killed", usually
you will receive a port exit for each port (alsaseq.SEQ_EVENT_PORT_EXIT)
and, finally, a client exit (alsaseq.SEQ_EVENT_CLIENT_EXIT).
You will be probably interested in newly created port events, which have a
python dict containing addr.client:client_id and addr.port:port_id items.
You can access client names using
alsaseq.Sequencer().get_client_info(client_id) and port names with
alsaseq.Sequencer().get_port_info(port_id, client_id) (be careful about the
order of parameters): they will return dictionaries containing different
values, but both of them will have a "name" key (AFAIR, the ID is not
implicit for ports, which means that you might find that a client has 2
ports, and the second port's id is 2 because the port_id 1 has been
destroyed).
Finally, the connections are made using
alsaseq.Sequencer().connect_ports((client_id, port_id), (client_id,
port_id)).
I know that this isn't the easiest method to get things done (pyalsa
support and documentation are not very clear nor simple), but, as far as
I've seen, it's the better and less error-prone I've found yet for this
kind of needs...
Best regards,
Maurizio
Post by Jonathan E. BrickmanI need to connect ALSA MIDI programmatically, and will prefer to use
Python. I perused a number of libraries, did not find an obvious great or
best. Recommends?
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