Sending midi signal from key combinations on a keyboard that is not dedicated to sending MIDI only

[rudfol]

Hi,

Is it possible for a keyboard that is not dedicated to MIDI only to send MIDI signal from certain combination of key strokes. E.g (Control + W) It would be wildly fantastic for it to only function like that when a specific program is focused. Like REAPER Digital Audio Workstation.

The reason for this is to trigger scripts from a MIDI signal on Reaper DAW on linux. I have a challenge where normal keyboard shortcuts are not working on linux. The idea is to circumvent this by sending midi signal.

Thank you for reading thus far.

I look forward to hearing from you!

[gethiox]

To be honest HIDI wasn't designed to handle key sequences, especially for MIDI note event emission. It was supposed to be used as simple instrument, nothing more nothing less. In theory it is possible but in practice currently I don't have time to implement such feature, sadly. The simplest workaround is to have additional computer keyboard as a launchpad for Reaper actions (HIDI -standalone), but I'm afraid it is not what are you looking for.

It's weird that Reaper can't manage shortcuts, my bet is that your window manager has active some overlapping shortcuts. Ctrl+W for example usually closes the tab. Maybe try to look around system settings > shortcuts and disable desired ones.

Hopefully you'll find a solution for your problem, unfortunately HIDI can't be used for that for now and I can't provide necessary changes to make it happen. I hope you'll understand.

[rudfol]

Hey, thanks for your answer. I totally understand no problem at all.

The shortcut issue is quite unique to REAPER on linux. So far I've found that any plugins made with JUCE framework steals keyboard shortcuts and do not pass it to the DAW. Anytime mouse is hovering over the plugin UI it steals it.

But MIDI data is not affected by it. So the solution was to send MIDI data from a keyboard shortcut to circumvent the issue.

Cheers mate, I think it is coming along. My plan is to use gbevin/SendMIDI to send MIDI data with terminal. Then hook that up to AutoKey to trigger them specific to window in focus.