Accept MIDI input data via pipe

[williamsharkey]

I am generating midi input files to MrsWatson programmatically, and was wondering if MrsWatson might be amenable to allowing the midi file to be piped in via stdin, by specifying "-" instead of a file path.

For example, suppose midigen.exe generates a midi file. Instead of using a temporary file like so:
midigen > temp.mid && mrswatson -p "c:\vst\Synth1.dll,mellowsynth.fxp" -m temp.mid -o out.wav

one could write:
midigen | mrswatson -p "c:\vst\Synth1.dll,mellowsynth.fxp" -m - -o out.wav

This would be similar to output option to write to stdout (cf: mrswatson --help output).

One could then more easily make processing chains piping in midi and piping out audio w/o junky temp files. (or is this a Pipedream?)

[varenc]

I'm interested in doing this as well. @williamsharkey did you ever figure out a good solution?

[nikreiman]

This is a possibility, but I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement. I'll take a look at it, though.