---
name: "elektroid-cli"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "elektroid"
version: "3.4-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/elektroid-cli"
---

# elektroid-cli(1)

Sample and MIDI device manager (CLI)

## NAME

elektroid-cli - Sample and MIDI device manager (CLI)

## SYNOPSIS

**elektroid-cli** \[*options*\] command

## DESCRIPTION

**elektroid-cli** is part of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager. See man elektroid for the GUI application.

With Elektroid you can easily upload and download audio files and manage different types of data on different MIDI devices, such as presets, projects or tunings. It can also be used to send and receive SysEx MIDI files.

## SUPPORTED DEVICES

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  Arturia MicroBrute

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  Arturia MicroFreak

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  Casio CZ-101

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  Elektron Analog Four MKI, MKII and Keys

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  Elektron Analog Heat MKI, MKII and +FX

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  Elektron Analog Rytm MKI and MKII

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  Elektron Digitakt I and II

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  Elektron Digitone I and II and Digitone Keys

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  Elektron Model:Cycles

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  Elektron Model:Samples

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  Elektron Syntakt

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  Eventide ModFactor, PitchFactor, TimeFactor, Space and H9

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  KORG padKONTROL

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  KORG Volca Sample and Volca Sample 2

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  Moog Little Phatty and Slim Phatty

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  Novation Summit and Peak

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  Samplers implementing MIDI SDS

## DEVICE COMMANDS

Device commands operate over the device itself. For the commands that operate over the different types of data a device provides see the filesystem commands section.

- \[ **ld** \| **list-devices** \]

  List devices

- **info** device\_number

  Show device info

- \[ **df** \| **info-storage** \] device\_number

  Show size and use of the available storages

- **send** file device\_number

  Send MIDI data file to device

- **receive** device\_number file

  Receive MIDI data file from device

- **upgrade** firmware device\_number

  Upgrade the device

- **play** file

  Play audio file

- **record** file

  Record into file

## FILESYSTEM COMMANDS

Different filesystem operations are implemented on different connectors so a command has one of the following forms:

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  connector, colon (':'), filesystem name, colon (':'), and the operation itself. This is the preferred way.

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  connector, hyphen ('-'), filesystem name, hyphen ('-'), and the operation itself. This should be avoided.

- Provided paths must always be prepended with the device id and a colon (':'), e.g. 0:/samples. Paths pointing to a data, sound or project file use the index of a file instead of its name.

  - These are the available operations.

  - \[ **ls** \| **list** \] device\_number:path\_to\_directory

  List directory

- **mkdir** device\_number:path\_to\_directory

  Create directory and its parent directories as needed

- \[ **rmdir** \| **rm** \] device\_number:path\_to\_directory

  Delete directory recursively

- \[ **ul** \| **upload** \] file device\_number:path\_to\_file\_or\_directory

  Upload file. If the path does not exist it will be created.

- \[ **dl** \| **download** \| **rdownload** \| **rdl** \| **backup** \] device\_number:path\_to\_file\_or\_directory \[ destination \]

  Download file into the destination directory or the current directory if not provided.

- **mv** device\_number:path\_to\_file\_or\_directory device\_number:path\_to\_file\_or\_directory

  Move file. If the destination path does not exist, it will be created.

- **rm** device\_number:path\_to\_file

  Delete file

- **cl** device\_number:path\_to\_file

  Clear file

- **cp** device\_number:path\_to\_file device\_number:path\_to\_file

  Copy file

- **sw** device\_number:path\_to\_file device\_number:path\_to\_file

  Swap files

## OPTIONS

- **-v** give verbose output. Use it more than once for more verbosity.

  ## EXAMPLES

- **elektroid-cli ld**

  lists the available devices.

- **elektroid-cli info 0**

  shows information about the device, including the connector and the available filesystems.

- **elektroid-cli elektron:sample:ul square.wav 0:/waveforms**

  uploads a sample to an Elektron device.

- **elektroid-cli sds:mono-16b:dl 0:/1**

  downloads a mono 16 bits sample from an SDS sampler.

- **elektroid-cli summit:single:ls 0:/A**

  lists Novation Summit single patches in bank A.

## SEE ALSO

The GitHub page provides some examples: \<https://dagargo.github.io/elektroid/\>

## AUTHOR

elektroid-cli was written by David García Goñi \<dagargo@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Dennis Braun \<snd@debian.org\> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).