Lance Blisters <geoff(a)lek.ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mario Lang
wrote:
I'm a blind Linux user since 1997, and
I'm also
interested in doing music on Linux.
Since I'm the synth-type-of-guy, I'd really love
to be able to play with software based synths, a little
bit of step seuqencing, and some sample based stuff.
Controlling my SuperNova DrumMachine via MIDI (and being able
to sequence it) would also be nice.
GDAM. Looks promosing because the workhorse
code is nicely separatedd from the GUI, and I already
managed to program gdam123 a bit to allow rate control,
but again, its not really what I'm looking for although
it seems nice.
GDAM does have a decent sequencer, with interfaces for step sequencing
and live-play input, pattern banks, etc. It would be quite simple to
cram into gdam123, or better yet its own little command-line app.
Yes, I've seen the demo-seuqencer.c file. My main problem there was
that I didn't find the whole API documented nicely anywhere, and am
not able to try the seuqencer out as it stands, as I'm not able to use
X. This makes figuring out how it's supposed to work a bit
cumbersome. So there's a bit of a chicken-egg problem again.
However, it works with samples not synths. To work
with synths
we'd need to add midi out.
Doesn't GDAM work with LADSPA? Wouldn't that allow software based
synths in the sequencer?
--
CYa,
Mario