Hi guys,
I came a java based drum machine/step sequencer on freshmeat the other day
called "Beats by Design".
To be truthful I didn't get it to do anything fancy, but my test was fairly
short.
The description of it suggests it could be really cool though, it uses
neural-nets in the engine (if I understand it correctly) to adapt and
improvise.
I just wondered if anyone tried it and got it to do anything useful?
it's at: http://bbd.sourceforge.net
Regards,
Robert
Hi,
3MU--- TB303 emulator--- seems like a neat bit of software, albeit
unmaintained, but unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a single
example source file around and the only documentation available appears
to be the source itself. Does anybody know of or have some input files
for it? So far, searches only seem to yield dead links.
Thanks,
S.M.
Hi,
For a while now I've wanted to fiddle with a reasonably powerful
synthesis engine but haven't found a suitable one yet. I've been dying
to give csound a good try but haven't succeeded in compiling it yet, and
I've tried cmix but have found it a bit too "low-level" for my humble
tastes. My problem is that most of the interesting synthesis engines and
synth emulators today seem to come with a GUI and I can't use one, nor
do I care to, to be frank. So, does anyone have a suggestion for a
fairly powerful CLI synth engine I might try?
Thanks,
S.M.
Replying to the Wine thread reminded me of something I was thinking about last
week and meant to ask the list. I've seen a number of sample playback
engines or programs that play .SF2 soundfonts, and for .PAT's of course
there's Timidity++. Is there any way to run T++ as a Jack application, or
run some other application that incorporates T++ somehow to use my vast
collection of .PAT files from my GUSPnP days as soundfonts?
If not, is there any way under Linux to convert my .PAT's to .SF2's? I
suppose I could buy Awave and try to get it working under Wine, but since
there shouldn't be any actual data conversion going on I'd think someone
might have written such a converter app years ago.
Maybe an ALSA-aware app would be good enough, since I'm running ALSA on my
laptop now - I haven't actually tried to assemble a sequencer/synth suite
under Linux yet because I haven't had any idea what to do with all my PAT
files except render static .mid files to .wav using Timidity.
Rob
>As for good fonts... the big ones are pretty good, perhaps best is Fluid3
>(should be on hammersound), but that one is BiiiiiiiiG...
Does anybody know where to get this Fluid III font? I have been looking for it and the ALL in ONE GM v1.1. They are nowhere to be found. There are lots of links to thesoundsite.net but that site seems to be defunct and Hammersound is a ghost town. I was able to get ahold of the MEGA Sound Bank v2.50 and it works quite well as a GS/GM sound font.
You can get it at www.jchyun.com/~afterdan/MegaV25.rar
If anyone knows where I can get the other two please let me know.
Maybe we should see if gentoo would host these major sound fonts in portage...
-Reuben
Hi!
gmorgan is a .. Rhythm Station, an organ with auto-accompaniment and a "small"
Band in a Linux Box. Uses MIDI and the ALSA sequencer for play the rhythm
patterns. Styles, patterns , sounds, and the mixer settings, can be edited
and saved.
Program is released GNU/GPL version 2.
News in v0.09
---------------------
- GNU autotoolized.
- Virtual Chord Keyboard.
- New Look and main window resizable.
- More Patterns & Songs.
- Added miscelaneous functions.
- Major and minor bugs solved.
REQUERIMENTS
--------------------------
Fast Computer
Linux
ALSA
Fltk
Take a look :
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/http://www.telefonica.net/web/soudfontcombi/
Josep
is there a way to compile alsa on a PPC using the dmasound_pmac sound
in/out? i have a mac 8500 running YDL 3.0 and it has a built in with
rca ins and outs, thought i'd try it but can't seem to get alsa to
find its own modules...
--
_________________________________________________________________
Jonathan Segel -- MAGNETIC -- PO Box 460816 S.F. CA. 94146-0816
4014 Brookdale Ave. Oakland, CA 94619
jsegel(a)magneticmotorworks.com <-----> magsatellite(a)yahoo.com
http://www.MagneticMotorworks.com
tel (510) 534 7825 cell (510) 484 7415 fax (425) 955 4495
Hi All,
I am just switching to Linux and am trying to find something that can make my
Casio CTK-671 keyboard work. It has no buit-in rhythm programming but rhythms
can be downloaded into it through MIDI interface. These are available for
download from Casio music web site
http://music.casio.com/e/671/
But there is no software that allows you to compose the ones of your own. Not
to mention that there is no Linux version of the software.
There is a 60-page MIDI manual however
http://ftp.casio.co.jp/pub/world_manual/emi/en/ctk_671/midi.pdf
and Windows version of the downloader:
http://music.casio.com/e/671/before.html
With these I hope I will be able to figure out how to program and download
rhytms into the keyboard. I wonder however is there is a standard protocol?
Do you know of anyone who ever tried to figure this out? It makes sense to
learn what others have done so far before starting a new project.
I would appreciate your help and any information that you may have.
Kind regards,
Lex
supercollider. the fact that the new server based version in
development is being simultaneously worked for OS X and linux is what
is make making me look at linux audio to begin with.
look here (swiki page)
http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/479
main swiki:
http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/6
main page
http://www.audiosynth.com
also from recent mailing list:
> fix try, in:
>
>SC_CoreAudio.h
>
>change this:
>
>#if SC_AUDIO_API == SC_AUDIO_API_JACK
># include <jack/jack.h>
>class SC_JackPortList;
>#endif
>
>to this:
>
>#if SC_AUDIO_API == SC_AUDIO_API_JACK
># include <jack/jack.h>
># include <assert.h>
>class SC_JackPortList;
>#endif
>
>From: Lee Azzarello <lee(a)fallingforward.net>
>To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
>Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Seeking advice on a suitable CLI synth engine
>Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
>
>I would recommend SuperCollider, and object oriented DSP/MIDI language
>based on Smalltalk. It might be ported to Linux but I'm not sure. There is
>also Nyquist, based on Lisp and very cross-platform. Csound is the
>formadible beast. Then there's PD, which is not command line but very
>powerful. And if you're into Java check out Jsyn or Jmax. The list goes on
>and on and on and on....
>
>-l[e^2]
>------------------------------
>http://www.fallingforward.net/
>people experimenting with music, art and technology
>
>On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, S. Massy wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For a while now I've wanted to fiddle with a reasonably powerful
>> synthesis engine but haven't found a suitable one yet. I've been dying
>> to give csound a good try but haven't succeeded in compiling it yet, and
>> I've tried cmix but have found it a bit too "low-level" for my humble
>> tastes. My problem is that most of the interesting synthesis engines and
>> synth emulators today seem to come with a GUI and I can't use one, nor
>> do I care to, to be frank. So, does anyone have a suggestion for a
> > fairly powerful CLI synth engine I might try?
--
_________________________________________________________________
Jonathan Segel -- MAGNETIC -- PO Box 460816 S.F. CA. 94146-0816
4014 Brookdale Ave. Oakland, CA 94619
jsegel(a)magneticmotorworks.com <-----> magsatellite(a)yahoo.com
http://www.MagneticMotorworks.com
tel (510) 534 7825 cell (510) 484 7415 fax (425) 955 4495
I have not been successful in getting this keyboard recognized on the
usb bus, let alone by the usb-audio driver. I'm going to see if I can
get it working via straight midi into my ymfpci-based guillemot
maxisound fortissimo. But, can anyone see anything else I can try? I've
tried to gather as much info as I could think of...maybe I'm just not
understanding something basic ... Please help.
My system is debian testing (sarge) with kernel 2.4.19 with preempt and
lowlatency patches and the following usb options turned on:
CONFIG_USB=m
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=m
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO=m
lsusb returns nothing and there is nothing in /proc/bus/usb/devices (
which I
guess says the same thing. )
I compiled and installed alsa-0.9.6 drivers, libs, utils and
envy24control.
the drivers were configured like this:
./configure --with-cards=ice1712,usb-audio --with-sequencer=yes
--with-oss=no
I have the following in modules.conf:
#sound specific modules
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
lsmod looks like this:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
input 3296 0 (autoclean)
snd-seq 35088 0 (autoclean)
snd-usb-audio 36992 0 (unused)
usbcore 55968 0 [snd-usb-audio]
snd-ice1712 35656 0
snd-pcm 54528 0 [snd-usb-audio snd-ice1712]
snd-page-alloc 5392 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-timer 13284 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 34008 0 [snd-ice1712]
snd-mpu401-uart 3088 0 [snd-ice1712]
snd-rawmidi 11616 0 [snd-usb-audio snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3652 0 [snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-ice17xx-ak4xxx 1344 0 [snd-ice1712]
snd-cs8427 5188 0 [snd-ice1712]
snd-ak4xxx-adda 3372 0 [snd-ice1712 snd-ice17xx-ak4xxx]
snd-i2c 2092 0 [snd-ice1712 snd-cs8427]
snd 23812 0 [snd-seq snd-usb-audio snd-ice1712
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-cs8427 snd-ak4xxx-adda snd-i2c]
aconnect -i:
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
acconnect -o:
<nothing>
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
(rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S
Audio Controller] (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: IC Ensemble Inc ICE1712 [Envy24]
(rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX
(rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev
01)
This box is a PII 400 on a AOpen AX6-BC motherboard.
-Eric Rz.