[linux-audio-dev] Which sequencer framework for a simple MIDI drum looper ?

_ langagemachine langagemachine at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 08:36:35 UTC 2006


Thank you ; I visited your site, and found many things of interest,
including the pksampler ;-) Will have a closer look at this,
definitely.

2006/8/15, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd.lists at gmail.com>:
> I wrote a bunch of control-rate (midi) sequencer code in python that
> sends messages via OSC to supercollider. I even incorporated it into a
> QObject so you can just slap it into your PyQt4 UI, as I did mine.
> PyQt4 is great...
>
> check out scosc and scsynth
>
> http://www.patrickkidd.com/
>
> lemmie know if you need any help.
>
> On 8/15/06, _ langagemachine <langagemachine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I write hoping that some nice LADs might enlighten me ?
> >
> > I've been feeling a recent itch to write a simple step-sequencer,
> > which outputs MIDI messages to the ALSA seq ; it is intended to drive
> > a drum machine. My ideal app is provided with a graphical UI which
> > includes HUGE buttons (to give you an idea, the GUI in FL Studio comes
> > to mind).
> >
> > It may seem silly at this point, but I could not find an existing app
> > which exactly suits me.
> > But anyway, I think it will be a piece of fun trying to write
> > something myself...
> >
> > I shamefully admit being no good at C/C++ programming, but I could
> > write some GUI code in Python/Java, which would communicate with the
> > sequencer engine, over OSC for example.
> >
> > Regarding said sequencing engine, I have found 3 possibilities so far :
> >
> > - Chuck
> > http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
> >
> > - Midishare (can be driven in Java, Lisp, ...)  *provided that I can
> > get it to compile on my Gentoo box ...
> > http://midishare.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > - Milk (Python MIDI engine for ALSA)
> > http://www.quitte.de/milk.html:
> >
> > The former two seem slightly more complete ; in particular, I very
> > much liked Breakage, which uses Chuck :
> > http://www.blackholeprojector.com/
> > (Actually, this app would have been a very good fit, but it is
> > Windows/Mac only :-o)
> >
> >
> > I'll finally make my point : which framework would - in your
> > experience - be the most practical to use ? Or the most interesting to
> > learn ?
> >
> > Many thanks for your attention.
> >
> > NB : I am aware that Hydrogen is one fine app ;-), and probably a step
> > sequencer can be written as a Pd patch in seconds, but that is not
> > what I am after at the moment ; I insist on the user interacting with
> > big, Playschool-like BLOCKS :-)
> >
>
>
> --
> Patrick Kidd Stinson
> http://www.patrickkidd.com/
> http://pkaudio.sourceforge.net/
> http://pksampler.sourceforge.net/
>



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