Re: [LAU] Console tools for linux audio and other things

Hello! Of course there are the following as well: Nama: based on casound, get the latest version from git: https://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html Bristol has a fantastic, if simplistic, textbased interface! If you like vi/vim, you'll love that! Try the -cli option. zynAddSubFX could be compiled without GUI to load patches. Midish was mentioned, but is rather more than low-level. It is a shell, you can write scripts and there already are some. Well-documented and quite powerful, if you know, what you want. setBfree the opening and pollishing of the Beatrix hammond organ emulator is fantastic (it's controlled by MIDI only) Aeolus Fons Adriaensen's pipe organ has a simple text-based interface. You can't edit the instrument, but you can load stops and setup the instrument. Hydrogen has a text-based interface for loading kits (hydrogen -k directory_of_kit ) mplayer and lately mplayer2 are very good music players with support for a lot of formats. Mplayer2 still has its glitches, but it can play youtube-links directly and there are a few other interesting new features. the hexter LV2 plugin (the DX7 emulator) has a small shell to go with jack-dssi-host. You can load patch files and switch patches, no editing. LinuxSampler and telnet are good companions. LinuxSampler's lscp protocol is fully documented on www.linuxsampler.org and you can either write your own lscp-scripts or copythem fom session with graphical front ends. Commands like: telnet piano_load.lscp | telnet localhost 8888 will load them and: telnet localhst 8888 gives youaccess to enter more commands. Use commands: RESET - to reset everything QUIT - to quit the shell (telnet) or any othe command from the lscp. jack.plumbing (otherwise known as the jack.* utilities) have some interesting small tools to manage jack connections. CLM and Csound also work well, especially when combined with emacs (for CLM) and probably both Vim and Emacs for Csound. They can do syntax highlighting and even automatic compliation/execution of code. Last but not least, there are all the small utilities, that are nice surrounding your audio setup, all the encoders (lame, oggenc/oggdec, flac,...). cdrecord, genisofs and wodim for CD ripping and burning, mencoder for converting between a lot of video formats, alsamixer or the lowlevel version amixer for setting up your soundcard... and of course 100s of LADSPA plugins and LV2 plugins, that can be loaded/used in Ecasound/Nama. If you're looking for non-audio related console utilities, please send an e-mail off-list. Warm regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html