[LAU] [ANN] klick 0.5

[Dominic Sacré]

On Thursday 06 December 2007 05:54:56 Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > klick is an advanced command-line based metronome for JACK. It allows
> > > you to define complex tempo maps for entire songs or performances.
> > >
> > > Its features include:
> > >
> > >  * Support for tempo maps, including arbitrary meters, tempo changes,
> > >    accelerando/ritardando and more.
> > >  * Three built-in sounds (borrowed from Ardour, GTick and FreePats),
> > >    plus ability to load your own samples.
> > >  * JACK transport sync support (master/slave).
> > >  * No GUI ;)
> > >
> > > Get it here:
> > > http://das.nasophon.de/klick/
>
> That's fantastic!!! I especially love the accelerando feature for
> practicing. A big improvement over jack_metro.
>
> Only thing that might be nice, is if it read stdin for keyboard commands
> (i.e. up-arrow/down-arrows), or opened an ALSA MIDI port to read CC's, for
> things like modifying the speed and/or volume, or to stop/start the
> metronome, etc.

Yup... I actually have some vague plans to add OSC support, and possibly build 
a GUI or terminal interface around that.
I don't know when that's going to happen though. Not this year at any 
rate... ;)


Dominic