amidiminder

ALSA utility to keep your MIDI devices connected

The problem

• Using aconnect to reconnect your devices and your software gets old quick.
• If you power cycle a synth... you've got to aconnect it again.
• Bandmate "helps" by unplugging a USB cord to untanlge and plugs it in again: Now you're controller is disconnected.

The solution

amidiminder is a program that runs as a service. It will:

1. Reads a rules file of connections you'd like made.

2. When the MIDI devices & software - amidimider will automatically connect them according to the rules.

3. It also Watches any connections you make with aconnect or that your software makes, and remembers them too.

4. If any MIDI port goes away (power cycle, pulled USB cord, etc..), ALSA will silentlly remove the connections... ... But when the MIDI port comes back - amidimider's got your back and will connect them right back up again just as they were.

Building

Prerequisites:

• g++-10 compiler
• make
• libasound2-dev
• fakeroot

sudo apt install g++-10 make libasound2-dev fakeroot

Clone this repo and run:

git clone https://github.com/mzero/amidiminder.git
cd amidiminder

vi debian/control
Architecture: arm64

make CXX=g++-10 CC=g++-10

Outputs:

• build executable is in build/amidiminder.
• deb package is in build/amidiminder.deb.

Install

Installing the built deb package will install a systemd service that runs amidiminder at startup.

sudo dpkg -i build/amidiminder.deb

That's it. — It's installed. — It's running — You're done!