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6 <bold>aseqjoy</bold>is a
7 <italic>Joystick to ALSA MIDI Sequencer Converter</italic>. In fact it's a
8 really tiny piece of software that turns a joystick into a MIDI controller
10 <link ref='http://www.alsa-project.org'>ALSA</link> sequencer
11 infrastructure. I mainly wrote it to test the new MIDI interface of
12 terminatorX but then I thought it might be useful with other scenarios and
13 applications, too.</para>
14 <para>For a more detailed description on what it does and how to use it
16 <link ref='aseqjoy-man.html'>manpage</link>.</para>
17 <para>If you want to test it yourself download the source:
18 <link ref='aseqjoy-0.0.1.tar.gz'>aseqjoy-0.0.1.tar.gz</link> (Sorry no
19 binaries - but it's so small it only takes seconds to compile it yourself
20 :) Compiling aseqjoy requires kernel and ALSA (asound library) headers to
22 <para>To compile and install it's really just the simple:</para>
24 <screen>tar xzf aseqjoy-0.0.1.tar.gz && cd aseqjoy-0.0.1
25 && ./configure && make && make install</screen>
27 <para>To make full use of aseqjoy you might require jscal from the Vojtech
29 <link ref='http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Evojtech/joystick/'>joystick
30 package</link> (to calibrate your joystick) and Robert Ham's
31 <link ref='http://pkl.net/%7Enode/alsa-patch-bay.html'>
32 alsa-patch-bay</link> or aconnect from the
33 <link ref='http://www.alsa-project.org'>alsa-utils</link> package to connect
34 aseqjoy's MIDI output port to other input ports.</para>
35 <para>aseqjoy is distributed under the terms of the
36 <link ref='COPYING'>GNU General Public License V2</link>.</para>