4 Apr
2013
4 Apr
'13
6:41 a.m.
Hi folks,
The question earlier today about a stage worthy multi-track backing
track solution made me think of "Band-In-A-Box" a windows tool for
creating style bassed tracks. I also have an OLD!!! Roland arranger
keyboard which does something similar.
Is there an equivalent program for Linux which has banks of styles,
and you input chord sequences to be played by the "band?"
Thanks!
Rusty
4 Apr
4 Apr
8:24 a.m.
Hello Rusty!
There is MMA (Musical MIDI Accompaniment). Its website:
http://mellowood.ca/mma/
For a good collection of linux audio applications in general see:
http://apps.linuxaudio.org
And Dave's page:
http://linux-sound.org
Have fun and best wishes
Julien
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http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html
8:30 a.m.
On Thursday, 04 April, 2013 07:41:25 AM Rusty Perez wrote:
Hi folks,
The question earlier today about a stage worthy multi-track backing
track solution made me think of "Band-In-A-Box" a windows tool for
creating style bassed tracks. I also have an OLD!!! Roland arranger
keyboard which does something similar.
Is there an equivalent program for Linux which has banks of styles,
and you input chord sequences to be played by the "band?"
Jammer Pro6 runs 99% using Wine, remains my main tool.
9:08 a.m.
On 04/04/2013 06:41 AM, Rusty Perez wrote:
Hi folks,
The question earlier today about a stage worthy multi-track backing
track solution made me think of "Band-In-A-Box" a windows tool for
creating style bassed tracks. I also have an OLD!!! Roland arranger
keyboard which does something similar.
Is there an equivalent program for Linux which has banks of styles,
and you input chord sequences to be played by the "band?"
Two I'm using from time and find usable are Impro-Visor and MMA:
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ and
http://mellowood.ca/mma/
Jostein
7:47 p.m.
On 4/4/13, Rusty Perez <rustys.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks,
The question earlier today about a stage worthy multi-track backing
track solution made me think of "Band-In-A-Box" a windows tool for
creating style bassed tracks. I also have an OLD!!! Roland arranger
keyboard which does something similar.
Is there an equivalent program for Linux which has banks of styles,
and you input chord sequences to be played by the "band?"
GMorgan
I've personally never used it (or "Band-in-abox" for that matter), but
I know it's under active development, the author puts out
announcements rather regularly. There are some instructional videos
on Youtube:
http://gmorgan.sourceforge.net/
From website:
gmorgan is a rhythm station, a modern organ with full editable
accompaniment for play in real time emulating the capabilities of
commercial rhythm stations “Korg”,”Roland”, “Solton” ... also has a
small pattern based sequencer like “Band in a Box”. Uses the
capabilities of ALSA sequencer to produce MIDI accompaniment.
7:51 p.m.
Small correction:
On 4/4/13, Egor Sanin <egor.sanin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/4/13, Rusty Perez <rustys.lists(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi folks,
[SNIP]
I know the changelog is outdated, use this URL instead:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmorgan/
5 Apr
5 Apr
6:51 a.m.
I've used Impro-Visor, although it's oriented towards jazz and
learning to improvise rather than providing a generic accompaniment
tool set.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein(a)vait.se> wrote:
On 04/04/2013 06:41 AM, Rusty Perez wrote:
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Hi folks,
The question earlier today about a stage worthy multi-track backing
track solution made me think of "Band-In-A-Box" a windows tool for
creating style bassed tracks. I also have an OLD!!! Roland arranger
keyboard which does something similar.
Is there an equivalent program for Linux which has banks of styles,
and you input chord sequences to be played by the "band?"
Two I'm using from time and find usable are Impro-Visor and MMA:
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ and
http://mellowood.ca/mma/
Jostein
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6:22 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:51 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb(a)znmeb.net> wrote:
I've used Impro-Visor, although it's oriented
towards jazz and
learning to improvise rather than providing a generic accompaniment
tool set.
As the author of MMA I'd like to invite you all to give it a try. I
can tell you that I use it and the generated MIDI files on daily
basis for practice and for the occasional solo gig.
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma
Best,
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2 May
2 May
5:02 p.m.
On 04/05/2013 06:22 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:51 PM, M. Edward (Ed)
Borasky<znmeb(a)znmeb.net> wrote:
Working from a command line/ script is not my most favorite workflow
when composing or music editing. I tried the gui Linuxband, but found
two major drawbacks for me:
1) no mixer to turn off an particular instrument
2) no funk style
And probably it would be more easy to have a more flexible way to route
midi to a certain sample (also without a 'hard coded' instrument number).
I was searching for an alternative to impro-visor, cause that Java app
is slow, but afaik it's the best option still.
\r
I've used Impro-Visor, although it's
oriented towards jazz and
learning to improvise rather than providing a generic accompaniment
tool set.
As the author of MMA I'd like to invite you all to give it a try. I
can tell you that I use it and the generated MIDI files on daily
basis for practice and for the occasional solo gig.
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma
6:21 p.m.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:01 AM, rosea.grammostola
<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/05/2013 06:22 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote:
Sorry about the GUI thing. But, I'm convinced that editing a script is
the easy way to do things. We'll agree to disagree here.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:51 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky<znmeb(a)znmeb.net>
wrote:
Working from a command line/ script is not my most favorite workflow when
composing or music editing. I tried the gui Linuxband, but found two major
drawbacks for me:
I've used Impro-Visor, although it's oriented towards jazz and
learning to improvise rather than providing a generic accompaniment
tool set.
As the author of MMA I'd like to invite you all to give it a try. I
can tell you that I use it and the generated MIDI files on daily
basis for practice and for the occasional solo gig.
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma
1) no mixer to turn off an particular instrument
Please read the MMA manual. There are lots of ways to do this.
2) no funk style
Styles are really quite easy to write. That's one of features of MMA,
I think, is that the styles (and songs files) are all in plain text.
And probably it would be more easy to have a more flexible way to route midi
to a certain sample (also without a 'hard coded' instrument number).
MMA supports translation tables. So you can call any midi "voice"
anything you want.
But, please remember, that MMA's job is to create a midi file. Once
that is done, you can use that file with any other midi-aware DAW or
whatever.
I was searching for an alternative to impro-visor, cause that Java app is
slow, but afaik it's the best option still.
\r
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6:33 p.m.
On 05/02/2013 06:21 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote:
I might have to test it a bit more, but I think I'll need a GUI for this.
\r
Sorry about the GUI thing. But, I'm convinced that editing a script is
the easy way to do things. We'll agree to disagree here.
If you also add a GUI to the app, then you serve both groups ;)
1) no mixer to turn off an particular instrument
Please read the MMA manual. There are lots of ways to do this.
2) no funk style
Styles are really quite easy to write. That's one of features of MMA,
I think, is that the styles (and songs files) are all in plain text.
And probably it would be more easy to have a more flexible way to route midi
to a certain sample (also without a 'hard coded' instrument number).
MMA supports translation tables. So you can call any midi "voice"
anything you want.
But, please remember, that MMA's job is to create a midi file. Once
that is done, you can use that file with any other midi-aware DAW or
whatever.
10:49 p.m.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:45 PM, rosea.grammostola
Opening an MMA file with gedit, made me conclude that
it's totally insane to
do this stuff this way :)
Okay. Works for me, but I'm probably in the nutty league :)
I need a GUI :)
Some folks are happily using lemma.
Really, though, that's the beauty of open source ... each to his own.
And the source is there for someone to create a GUI from ... Just not
me: emacs is my GUI of choice :)
Seriously, I think it depends a lot on what kind of music one is doing
as well. I do mostly jazz standard stuff, and it's easy to follow on a
bar-to-bar basis. If one is doing loop tracks, it might be a different
story.
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3 May
3 May
4:38 p.m.
"rosea.grammostola" <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> writes:
Opening an MMA file with gedit, made me conclude that it's totally
insane to do this stuff this way :)
Yes, editing a linux file with gedit is insane. gedit is
a toy for people who do not know how to work under unix.
The proper way to edit a unix file is with vi or emacs.
4:47 p.m.
Am 03.05.2013 16:37, schrieb Ivan K:
"rosea.grammostola"<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> writes:
It wouldn't disturb to wrote that double.
:-D :-D :-D
Opening an MMA file with gedit, made me conclude
that it's totally
insane to do this stuff this way :)
Yes, editing a linux file with gedit is
insane. gedit is
a toy for people who do not know how to work under unix.
The proper way to edit a unix file is with vi or emacs.
7:48 p.m.
On 05/03/2013 04:37 PM, Ivan K wrote:
"rosea.grammostola"<rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> writes:
:)
Opening an MMA file with gedit, made me conclude that it's totally
insane to do this stuff this way :)
Yes, editing a linux file with gedit is insane. gedit is
a toy for people who do not know how to work under unix.
The proper way to edit a unix file is with vi or emacs. 
7:51 p.m.
Am 03.05.2013 16:37, schrieb Ivan K:
"rosea.grammostola" <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> writes:
whimps!
dont you know good ole' textutils anymore?
touch, sed, echo: that is real men workin under UNIX
;-)
Opening an MMA file with gedit, made me conclude that it's totally
insane to do this stuff this way :)
Yes, editing a linux file with gedit is insane. gedit is
a toy for people who do not know how to work under unix.
The proper way to edit a unix file is with vi or emacs. _______________________________________________
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8:50 p.m.
The proper way
to edit a unix file is with vi or emacs.
whimps!
dont you know good ole' textutils anymore?
touch, sed, echo: that is real men workin under UNIX 
5 May
5 May
11:33 a.m.
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 19:51 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
Am 03.05.2013 16:37, schrieb Ivan K:
+ 1 for touch, sed, echo, but also for Gedit and similar editors. Vi and
especially Emacs are hard to use and learning how to use them for many
users isn't worse the effort. I wonder that even new Linux users praise
Vi and Emacs, since those editors might have advantages for some usage,
but for most editing done by e.g. musicians, they are only hard to use,
without any advantage.
"rosea.grammostola" <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> writes:
whimps!
dont you know good ole' textutils anymore?
touch, sed, echo: that is real men workin under UNIX
;-)
Opening an MMA file with gedit, made me conclude that it's totally
insane to do this stuff this way :)
Yes, editing a linux file with gedit is insane. gedit is
a toy for people who do not know how to work under unix.
The proper way to edit a unix file is with vi or emacs. 
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