Re: [fluid-dev] [SOLVED] How to send manual midi commands to fluidsynth from another program?

[John O'Hagan]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, John O'Hagan wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, you wrote:
> > John O'Hagan wrote:
[...]
> >
> > Note that FluidSynth doesn't follow strictly the telnet protocol, so you
> > can use something simpler. The command line utility netcat(1) (or 'nc')
> > is
>
> [...]
>
> > What I mean is that you can use simple TCP/IP sockets and text streams,
> > instead of the telnet class.
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > import sys
> > import time
> > from socket import *
> > serverHost = "localhost"
> > serverPort = 9800
> > s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
> > s.connect((serverHost, serverPort))
> > s.send("noteon 1 66 100\n")
> > time.sleep(1)
> > s.send("noteoff 1 66\n")
> > s.send("quit\n")
> > data = s.recv(1024)
> > print data
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Pablo: simpler is better, after all.
>
> I tried the socket approach, and while it works, multiple connections break
> the pipe, whereas Telnet() seems to handle this gracefully, so I put it
> back in, as I want to be able to send several streams of midi messages to
> one instance of fluidsynth.
>
> Or is this possible with sockets too? If it is, I missed it.

I sure did: that last part of my post was untrue, the pipe-breaking was an 
unrelated issue.

John