how to connect a midi client to non midi hardware sound card

Hello All

I am trying to refresh the ttymidi project, I have sent the merge request to support the midi baudrate.

The problem is the sound card in my PC is too new that it doesn't have a midi input(I think the old hardware does).

amidi -l would report:

"cannot determine device number: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

I think it is SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_RAWMIDI_NEXT_DEVICE won't work here.

Could I still use snd_seq_open() to create a midi client to the system's sound card.

Or I should try something different to make midi input work?

Yours

Randy