Does anyone know of software that can generate MIDI messages from a touchpad?
The idea would be to send CCs to a sequencer or soft synth, but being able to
send it to an external hardware device would also be very useful.
--
Will J Godfrey
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/http://yoshimi.github.io
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
This is Steinway_IMIS soundfont, version 2.2.
ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sf2/Steinway_IMIS2.2
This version fixes the issue with loops. I hope this is the good one
and there are no more remaining major bugs.
Marcos is a little busy right now, so he asked me to make this fix. He
is thinking to make other improvements, so expect more updates soon.
Is anybody out here in LAU land have experience with PISound?
https://www.blokas.io/pisound/
I have just bought one and am having quite sever teething problems with it.
It keeps freezing for ~45 seconds when running X and I cannot get it to
use the full display.
cheers
Worik
--
If not me then who? If not now then when? If not here then where?
So, here I stand, I can do no other
root(a)worik.org 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Dear list,
I recently bought a LinnStrument from Roger Linn Design:
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html
It is a great isomorphic midi-controller, and as such it is immediately
recognized on Linux.
The distinguishing feature of the LinnStrument is that it senses 3
degrees of freedom on each note: x-direction, y direction and
z-direction (pressure). The x-direction is mapped to pitch-bend, and
y-direction to CC74.
A cool feature is the "slide", where the pitch-bend is used to slide
between all notes in a row.
To allow individual pitch and CC74 values for each note, it sends each
note on a separate midi-channel ("MPE"):
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/implementing-mpe.html
Bitwig has added support for this, and there is 20 presets in version
1.3.11, where this is used (tag: linnstrument). The LinnStrument
controller is not recognized automatically on Linux in version 1.3.11,
but it can be configured manually, and then it works fine. Note that
both midi-in and midi-out has to be configured, if not there is no
sound! It should look like this: https://ibin.co/2msBJVgpKtf9.png
Now I would like to also use it with the free Linux synths.
Here's what I have been able to make work this far.
Synthv1:
PME works reasonably well: I can play polyphonic in MPE mode, but it
tends to miss the "note off"s.
I can get the slide to work, by setting
<param index="36" name="DEF1_PITCHBEND">2</param>
<param index="78" name="DEF2_PITCHBEND">2</param>
is a preset.
Zynaddsubfx:
I can not get MPE to work.
Sending only on one channel, and setting PWheelB.Rng to 2400 cents, I
cant get the sliding to work, but only when playing with one finger.
If I enable MPE on the LinnStrument there is only an occasional sound,
when it happens to send on the channel, that Zyn is listening on.
I'll love to hear if other LinnStrument users have been able to do more
with any of the free synths on Linux.
All the best,
Thomas
Hey hey,
this is only tangential to the other big pipewire thread.
I wish to run pipewire on top of my running jack server as a replacement for
pulseaudio, since that somehow stopped working and now I have no speech output
from the desktop/Orca.
I read that one has to change alsa-monitor.conf for the media session manager.
Changing:
alsa.jack-device = false
to
alsa.jack-device = true
Which I did, but the next step of using pw-cli to connect or enable it is
unclear to me.
I will need a commandline way of achieving this.
At the moment pipewire is still using ALSA and that means the built-in
soundcard which has no connections.
Has someone here managed this?
Best wishes and thanks,
Jeanette
--
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* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g
* Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c
* GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c
'Cause living in a dream of you and me
Is not the way my life should be... <3
(Britney Spears)
Hi,
not new to the list but been out for a "while" :-)
I am having fun with Ardour since last few months and wondering what do you
use for bass guitar on your channel strip.
For eg. I am currently using ACE fluid synth + TamgampX
Is there any plugin I am not aware of?
Mididings may be the only JACK-api MIDI router/filter tool around; if
there is another I'd love to know about it. On the other hand t was
working just dandy until, I think, some changes to both Python3 and
legacy support for Python2. I was using its Python3 AUR adaptation
(mididings-git) under Manjaro, but then after package upgrades, it began
to fail at 'from mididings import *' (see below). I found similar
failures in Ubuntu 20, and found different failures in both when I tried
setting up to use Python2 (which obviously we would rather not be
doing). The failure is similar to a number of failures reported
starting with Python 3.10, so this may be related, but I was not able to
figure out how to apply those workarounds to the mididings source, I
tried several different variations, including a number of the different
forks in github.
Thoughts, anyone? I found Pigiron and Jamrouter and puredata, but none
of these appear to do JACK. I'm using pipewire now, so I could
theoretically revise the whole rig around ALSA MIDI, but all of the apps
needing MIDI use JACK, and mididings is so elegant...
J.E.B.
|[jeb@newbnr ~]$ python Python 3.10.1 (main, Dec 18 2021, 23:53:45) [GCC
11.1.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information. >>> from mididings import * Traceback (most recent
call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-
linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/__init__.py", line 15, in <module> from
mididings.engine import run, process_file File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/engine.py",
line 15, in <module> import mididings.patch as _patch File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-
linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/patch.py", line 15, in <module> import
mididings.units as _units File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/units/__init__.py",
line 14, in <module> from mididings.units.engine import * File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/units/engine.py",
line 55, in <module> def SceneSwitch(number=_constants.EVENT_PROGRAM):
File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/unitrepr.py",
line 46, in composed return arguments.accept(*constraints, **kwargs)
(store(f)) File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/arguments.py",
line 49, in __init__ self.constraints = [_make_constraint(c) for c in
constraints] File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/arguments.py",
line 49, in <listcomp> self.constraints = [_make_constraint(c) for c in
constraints] File
"/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mididings-2.0.0+r26a40db-py3.10-linux-x86_64.egg/mididings/arguments.py",
line 160, in _make_constraint elif isinstance(c, collections.Callable):
AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Callable' >>>|
>
>
> Are there any plans for porting PipeWire to other operating systems like
> windows or macOS?
>
> I think it is a great feature of jack that is available not only on
> Linux (despite the fact that my audio work is 100% linux-based).
>
> Giso
>
>
Having the JACK API on several OS was one reason of GRAME involvement back in 2004 with the JACK2 C++ project… A lot of work I would say… maybe simpler now with appropriate abstractions on low-level OS feature?
Good luck !
Stéphane
On 26/01/22 01:08, David Kastrup wrote:
.....
| Ffado really is not something I want to be without since the ALSA
| Firewire stack just does not hold up to it. I don't blame the ALSA
| developers: most devices are to be considered ancient. But I am not
| interested in scrapping them.
|
| -- David Kastrup
I really do appreciate this statement!
I have 2 rigs in use, each with a Focusrite Saffire 10 Pro, they are
running flawlessly now for already a long time
and I do not see any necessity wasting money for a "upgrade", which
most likely would rather be a kind of downgrade,
thinking of that genius ffado-mixer providing me full access to the
hardware monitoring capabillities of the Saffire...
almost none of actual usb-audio-devices offer this funcionality in
Linux, the situation seems poor to me...
best
suse
