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author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2013-06-03 16:24:41 -0500 |
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committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-06-04 00:11:32 -0500 |
commit | bf4ab6962d0aa471d1906c66041b0f45f8e0391f (patch) | |
tree | f7ec7d93c1294fa446a8456628c02024e2184e21 /audio/lsmi/README | |
parent | 995fe8e3c439e833c80c41a8fd0ccbcb582d6db5 (diff) |
audio/lsmi: Added (map device input to ALSA MIDI sequencer events)
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/audio/lsmi/README b/audio/lsmi/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..21d8f4b6b0bb --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/lsmi/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +lsmi (map keyboard/mouse/joystick input to ALSA MIDI sequencer events) + +These simple user-space drivers support using certain homemade, +repurposed, or commercial devices as MIDI controllers on Linux, even +though the devices themselves are not capable of generating MIDI messages; +this does not include things like MIDI-over-serial or PIC based projects, +which are true MIDI devices. + +Reasons for using this software include: achieving MIDI entry on machines +without MIDI ports, reusing old hardware, pure frugality, and fun. + +This package uses POSIX filesystem capabilities to execute with +elevated privileges (required for realtime audio processing). This +may be considered a security/stability risk. Please read +http://www.slackbuilds.org/caps/ for more information. To disable +capabilities, pass SETCAP=no to the script. |