[LAU] Off-topic but related Opensource MIDI sequencer for Windows?

Julien Claassen julien at c-lab.de
Mon Oct 6 07:04:26 EDT 2008


Hi!
   Of course there is! That's mainly, why I'm VERY FOND of my Linux. :-)
   As for MIDI-sequencing: midish, cuse and mondrian (programming language 
only). Deficits of midish and cuse: no ALSA or JACK MIDI backends. Only 
rawmidi.
   For audio: ecasound (recording, processing, mixing, LADSPA support).
   As for softsynths and samplers: ZynAddSubFX has a very small commandline 
interface (Loading only), fluidsynth (shell-like), LinuxSampler (via simple 
telnet, working on something nicer shell-like myself), csound and clm (both 
with programming language), I think also supercollider can be used via simple 
text-files, though I'm not sure. Oh and I'm sorry: aeolus OF COURSE, with it's 
shell-interface. Beatrix has an interactive curses-interface (no JACK and ALSA 
at all, you'll have to patch it up yorself with bio2jack and even then it may 
be problematic...). Tapeutape is an XML-based sampler in the making. Nice 
start, promising, but still lacking a bit.
   there's the sndfile-suite for small conversion tasks. There's sox for other 
simple tasks.
   You can use TiMidity live for playing. There's tranches a looping software 
(MIDI pattern player).
   Last but not least there's jconv (former jace) for realtime IR-based reverb 
effects (convolution).
   All these can make u-p a very formidable environment.
   Real drawback is in fact only the MIDI angle. Midish has a lot of good 
features and is - as far as I've seen - very cleanly programmed, cuse has a 
nice interface and a few very cunning features (use special key-combinations 
on your midi-keyboard to perform some function). But they all don't have ALSA 
MIDI sequencer and no way to have real JACK transport. I tried hacking midish 
to have VERY BASIC JACK transport control support. But the result is not 
satisfactory. I hope I'll get back to it and then do a few tests. I guess I 
should first do a few more experiments with JACK though.
   Sorry for the long winded answer.
   Kindest regards
           Julien

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