send-sds provides utilities for sending SDS (MIDI Sample Dump Standard) files to samplers from Linux using the ALSA MIDI API.

To convert an audio file to SDS, I use libsndfile's sndfile-convert utility. WARNING: use libsndfile 1.0.23 or later -- previous versions had bugs that caused the creation of invalid SDS files.

$ amidi -l
Dir Device    Name
IO  hw:1,0,0  Elektron TM-1 MIDI 1

$ sndfile-convert foo.wav foo.sds

$ send-sds
send-sds 2010.10.23
usage: <alsa-device> <channel-num> <sample-num> <sds-filename>

$ send-sds hw:1,0,0 0 2 foo.sds

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