[linux-audio-user] ncurses-based MIDI step sequencer a la muse (matrix mode)?

[Dave Phillips]

Greetings:

  The "sequencer" aspect of TiMidity refers to its ability to function 
as an ALSA sequencer client. I sometimes think that the choice of the 
term "sequencer" is misleading to those of us who understand a sequencer 
as a MIDI recorder. That is *not* what the ALSA sequencer interface is, 
it's really more of a "subscriber" that allows and manages   multiple 
connections between the clients who "subscribe" to the API (bad 
description, I know, but it's all I can come up with right now).

  TiMidity does read MIDI files, of course, and it can also be compiled 
to function as an ALSA sequencer client. Hence the confusion regarding 
its capabilities...

  Btw, Emilio mentioned Sted2, a rather interesting MIDI sequencing 
environment with an ncurses interface, but if licensing and source 
availability is not an issue there's also the now-freeware Sequencer 
Plus Gold from Voyetra. DOSemu handles it (and the Voyetra drivers) 
beautifully. I'd like to see if DOSemu will work as well with the DOS 
version of Cakewalk, but I don't own a copy and can't find it anywhere. 
Both SPG and Cakewalk use ANSI graphics for their interfaces, so I can 
use SPG from either the console or from an xterm.

Best regards,

dp


Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:39:06PM -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
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>>>>What something Timidity++ -- it uses a variety of interfaces, including 
>>>>ncurses, slang, GTK+, etc.
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>>>Does timidity do sequencing? I always thought of it as a softsynth ...
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>>Yeah, that's true... it's a softsynth with a built-in sequencer... never 
>>mind.
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>So, is that builtin sequencer only capable of reading midi files? or
>does it have an interface for editing them as well?
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>-Eric Rz.
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