19 Feb
2006
19 Feb
'06
4:08 p.m.
Hello list,
I'm working on a new piece and I need a some intro. I was thinking of
doing something funky with a softsynth and a glissando. Think along the
lines of the beginning of "Threshold" from the Steve Miller Band (or the
opening of Jungle Love, also from Steve). I can't figure out how to do a
glissando in Rosegarden, so does anyone of yous out there know that
trick or some other way of making some weirdo sounds? Cheers,
Hans
19 Feb
19 Feb
5 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: glissando intro
There's Shelljam by yours truly... It's in alpha stage but quite usable.
You can use the mouse to change MIDI controllers, for now only pitch
wheel and filter cutoff frequency.
These can be recorded on seperate rosegarden tracks. Set controller
sensitivity for the pitchwheel to one octave and to max for cutoff for
best results, the hold one or both of the mousebuttons and move the
mousebutton to get the FX.
Note: The window that appears after startup looks like it's crashed but
it's a stub for a proper UI. Press and hold ESC and press ENTER to exit.
http://shelljam.sourceforge.net
Just lemme know if you need some help, I want people like you to be
using this!
Carlo
6:04 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: glissando intro
Hello Carlo,
I installed it and tried to run it. I do get a "oh look it crashed!"
window and the whole wm locks up (I'm using KDE). I do get out with
Esc-Enter, so no real harm done. What's next? --Hans
Carlo Capocasa wrote:
There's Shelljam by yours truly... It's in
alpha stage but quite usable.
You can use the mouse to change MIDI controllers, for now only pitch
wheel and filter cutoff frequency.
These can be recorded on seperate rosegarden tracks. Set controller
sensitivity for the pitchwheel to one octave and to max for cutoff for
best results, the hold one or both of the mousebuttons and move the
mousebutton to get the FX.
Note: The window that appears after startup looks like it's crashed but
it's a stub for a proper UI. Press and hold ESC and press ENTER to exit.
http://shelljam.sourceforge.net
Just lemme know if you need some help, I want people like you to be
using this!
Carlo
6:06 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: glissando intro
Sorry, forgot: the output after I exit....
hans@athlon2500:~/shelljam-0.0.2-bin$ ./shelljam
Try to run /usr/bin/ggtick
LibGG: ggtick exec failed!
Linux-kbd: couldn't get mode: Invalid argument
Linux-kbd: couldn't set raw mode: Invalid argument
Hans wrote:
Hello Carlo,
I installed it and tried to run it. I do get a "oh look it crashed!"
window and the whole wm locks up (I'm using KDE). I do get out with
Esc-Enter, so no real harm done. What's next? --Hans
Carlo Capocasa wrote:
There's Shelljam by yours truly... It's
in alpha stage but quite usable.
You can use the mouse to change MIDI controllers, for now only pitch
wheel and filter cutoff frequency.
These can be recorded on seperate rosegarden tracks. Set controller
sensitivity for the pitchwheel to one octave and to max for cutoff for
best results, the hold one or both of the mousebuttons and move the
mousebutton to get the FX.
Note: The window that appears after startup looks like it's crashed but
it's a stub for a proper UI. Press and hold ESC and press ENTER to exit.
http://shelljam.sourceforge.net
Just lemme know if you need some help, I want people like you to be
using this!
Carlo
7 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: glissando intro
Well, it looks like it crashed, but what it really does is lock the
keyboard and mouse in low level mode. Gotta make a nice GUI and warning
signs and all but for now I'm focused on performance and getting more
functionality in...
When you hold the left mouse button and move the mouse right and left,
you get pitch wheel signals coming through the MIDI through port.
Same with sound brightness signals. You use the right mouse button and
move up-and-down.
So you connect MIDI through to rosegarden in and record the FX on a
seperate track. Bug note: Pressing ESC to quit sounds an AllSoundsOff
controller signal that gets recorded too.
Thanks for testing, I really appreciate it! Ask away if you need more.
Carlo
20 Feb
20 Feb
3:27 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: glissando intro
Hello Carlo,
Success! The pitch wheel works, although the movement is very limited.
With brightness I haven't noticed any effect at all. --Hans
Carlo Capocasa wrote:
Well, it looks like it crashed, but what it really does
is lock the
keyboard and mouse in low level mode. Gotta make a nice GUI and warning
signs and all but for now I'm focused on performance and getting more
functionality in...
When you hold the left mouse button and move the mouse right and left,
you get pitch wheel signals coming through the MIDI through port.
Same with sound brightness signals. You use the right mouse button and
move up-and-down.
So you connect MIDI through to rosegarden in and record the FX on a
seperate track. Bug note: Pressing ESC to quit sounds an AllSoundsOff
controller signal that gets recorded too.
Thanks for testing, I really appreciate it! Ask away if you need more.
Carlo
7:03 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: glissando intro
Success! The pitch wheel works, although the movement
is very limited.
With brightness I haven't noticed any effect at all. --Hans
ALL RIGHT!
For the pitch wheel, MIDI controllers can only go from 0 to 127, and
it's up to the sound application on how to interpret that. The MIDI
standard says applications should go from -1 to 1 semi-tone by default,
which is probably the limitation you are experiencing.
Same goes for sound brightness, the sound application decides if it is
interpreted at all and if yes, how much.
I only tested ZynAddSubFX and amSynth so far, for Zyn you can click the
'Controllers' button in the main window and crank up FltCut all the way
and set PWheelBRing to 1200% (=12 semitones=1 octave). That lets you do
some pretty Phatt effects.
amSynth is nice because you can set any controller to control any
parameter, which is infinetly flexible... You even see the Knobs turning
when you operate controllers, which is almost like magic and looks real
LIGHT.
For other synths, Shelljam will be more flexible soon, as soon as I
finish my implementation of XML-based definition files and the
instrument plugin system.
To: Anyone. If you wanna help, mail me! (or just code and patch me up)
in any case I'm more than happy to help.
capocasa -X-X-AT-X-X- gmx -Y-Y-Y-dot-Y-Y-Y- net.
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