[LAU] Freewheeling, keyboard

Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 09:06:21 EDT 2009


Danni Coy wrote:
> That does appear to be the problem
> does it do this everytime you start the app?
>
> Also what kernel are you running (is it rt)?
Yeah everytime, RT kernel, no problems with other pro audio apps.
No errors or something...

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>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Grammostola Rosea 
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com <mailto:rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>     <mailto: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>
>     >     <mailto: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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