Getting bored in the office? A few of your officemates can drive the boss crazy by starting your own "cubicle rock band". This is an simple script, to help waste "many many man-hours". :-) It probably works on linux only. Windows users already waste enough time. :-)

Press a key and a midi note is sounded. My favorite is "r". 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use MIDI::Realtime;
use Term::ReadKey;

ReadMode('cbreak');

#this works on linux with an SBlive, Alsa 1.0.4, kernel 2.4.22 
# on my system, it has a bug when usb-hotplug and usb-midi are used 
my $midi = MIDI::Realtime->new(dev=>'/dev/sequencer',
                               midi_device=> 1); #1,2,3,4 

while(1){
my $char;
if (defined ($char = ReadKey(0)) ) {
        print ord($char),"\n";    # input was waiting and it was $char
+ 

        $midi->patch(ord($char)); 
#change instrument, 127 gives "exploding keyboard" :-) 

        $midi->note(50,1,127); #play note 

} else {
          # no input was waiting 
        }
}


ReadMode('normal');                  # restore normal tty settings 

__END__

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In reply to qwerty-keyboard realtime midi by zentara

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