[linux-audio-user] Hydrogen for live accompaniment

[Paul Coccoli]

On 2/24/06, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> A lot of devices and software systems (of the commercial type at least)
> seem to have a tap tempo system where two taps are all that is needed to
> set the tempo of an effect or sequence.
>
> I would really like to be able to tap something to cause hydrogen to
> start in sync with a live performer.  Tempo tap seems to be missing from
> the hydrogen feature set though.
>
> But then it occured to me that perhaps there is a program out that that
> can act as a Alsa or Jack midi source clock that gets it's tempo from
> tapping (either a key or a midi foot pedel)?  Has anyone seen such a
> thing?
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
> jdboyd at jdboyd.net
> http://www.jdboyd.net/
> http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
>

I've been wanting the same thing.  Maybe a simple JACK transport
master that, given the number of beats per bar, waits for one bar's
worth of taps (from some given input device) and starts the transport
at that BPM.  Like when Dee Dee Ramone yells "1, 2, 3, 4!"

Maybe I'll try to write such a program, and name it DeeDee.