I have a MIDI-controlled guitar/synth rig which I use for live industrial/progressive rock music. I'm using a MIDI track to provide a click (which is on one channel of my Waldorf Blofeld synth) and change my synth/guitar/vocal settings at various points in songs. At the moment this is being played by a netbook running Linux Mint LXDE, via a Novation XStation which forms the heart of the rig (as an audio/midi interface). However, I view this as a temporary prototype and plan to move to a Raspberry Pi. Clearly efficient performance is key, but this is not a very strenuous job as there is no real-time signal processing occurring.
The tracks are started by mididings, which is a python library. It waits for an incoming program change from my midi controller, and starts the appropriate track. So far, so good. However, at the moment I am using pmidi, which does not send midi clock messages. As I come up with increasingly intricate synth and guitar effects, the lack of clock sync is becoming a real source of frustration. Are there any simple command-line midi file players that correctly handle midi clock with tempo and time signature changes? I'd prefer not to start X if possible, and I need to be able to set everything up with a shell script.
Any help is much appreciated! I'm new here but may stick around a little
