[LAU] Freewheeling, keyboard

[Grammostola Rosea]

Danni Coy wrote:
> hitting TAB once should take you to keyboard mode (testing with 0.6 
> from xubuntu here)... however one of the first few times I tried it - 
> it did lock up and not allow keyboard input at all
> if escape does not close the application then this may be the case

escape doesn't close the app. Nothing doesn't close the app, even ctr-c 
in terminal not. I have to close the terminal to shut it down... So 
there is a problem maybe...
\r


>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Grammostola Rosea 
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com <mailto:rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Norval Watson wrote:
>     > ----- Original Message ----
>     >
>     >
>     >> From: Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
>     <mailto:rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>>
>     >> Norval Watson wrote:k
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>> From: Grammostola Rosea
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Danni Coy wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> You need to hook up the inputs of Freewheeling before it
>     does anything
>     >>>>> useful...
>     >>>>> Patchage is probably the easiest tool for this. Connect the
>     inputs to
>     >>>>> what you want to record and the outputs to the outputs on your
>     >>>>> soundcard. From here the qwerty keyboard is used to
>     record,trigger and
>     >>>>> stop playing loops.
>     >>>>> Each key is a loop.
>     >>>>> 1st press starts recording
>     >>>>> 2nd press stops recording and starts playback
>     >>>>> 3rd+ toggles playback.
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> space + key clears loop
>     >>>>> alt + space clears all loops
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> hope that helps you get started
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>> Thanks. I have the connections, but pressing a key doesn't do
>     anything.
>     >>>> I think the settings for the pc keyboard etc are not right yet...
>     >>>>
>     >>>> \r
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>> If you press TAB does the Freewheeling window cycle through
>     representations of
>     >>>
>     >> the QWERTY keyboard, an octave on a piano keyboard, a dance mat
>     etc?
>     >>
>     >>> (NB: the Freewheeling window has to be the active window)
>     >>> Norv
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >> no... it doesn't do that.
>     >>
>     >> \r
>     >>
>     > OK that means the QWERT is not talking to Fweelin at all.
>     > What version of Freewheeling are you using?
>     > (I'm not on my Fweelin system right now but I can check it out
>     tomorrow.)
>     > N
>     >
>     >
>     Right. I'm using 0.6 on Debian testing. Like I said, fweelin has a new
>     configuration system, which I don't understand and can't find good
>     info
>     to handle it right myself.
>     Thanks for your help.
>
>     \r
>
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