12 Feb
2012
12 Feb
'12
9:26 p.m.
Hi all,
just to introduce myself. I'm a developer mainly in C++ and Java on Linux
platform. In my free time I like to play jazz guitar. To accompany my
improvisation practicing I has been using MIDI files generated by MMA. To
facilitate writing of MMA files and playing them back I created LinuxBand.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
Ales
LinuxBand is a GUI front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI
Accompaniment)<http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/>.
Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical
accompaniment for you.
It’s an open source alternative to Band-in-a-Box featuring:
- Easy to use graphical interface
- Open and well-documented data format
- Output to JACK Midi <http://jackaudio.org/> to facilitate co-operation
with other audio applications
Home page: http://linuxband.org/
Project page: https://github.com/noseka1/linuxband
12 Feb
12 Feb
9:52 p.m.
On Sunday 12 February 2012 22:26:50 Ales Nosek wrote:
Hi all,
just to introduce myself. I'm a developer mainly in C++ and Java on Linux
platform. In my free time I like to play jazz guitar. To accompany my
improvisation practicing I has been using MIDI files generated by MMA. To
facilitate writing of MMA files and playing them back I created LinuxBand.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
Ales
LinuxBand is a GUI front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI
Accompaniment)<http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/>.
Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical
accompaniment for you.
It’s an open source alternative to Band-in-a-Box featuring:
- Easy to use graphical interface
- Open and well-documented data format
- Output to JACK Midi <http://jackaudio.org/> to facilitate co-operation
with other audio applications
Home page: http://linuxband.org/
Project page: https://github.com/noseka1/linuxband
Cool. Looking forward to playing with this.
Being a dedicated Jammer-Pro user for all these years (works almost 100% using
Wine), an opensource alterntive is great news. More styles and riffs, use them
both! Humanize the MIDI with the Ntonyx Style Enhancer -- I've been with this
one since they made it, also works maybe 90% ("destructive" editing only)
using Wine. Then on to ... choose one: Ardour, Rosegarden, Qtractor, etc. (ex-
windows Cakewalk user).
10:24 p.m.
On Sunday 12 February 2012 22:26:50 Ales Nosek wrote:
Hi all,
just to introduce myself. I'm a developer mainly in C++ and Java on Linux
platform. In my free time I like to play jazz guitar. To accompany my
improvisation practicing I has been using MIDI files generated by MMA. To
facilitate writing of MMA files and playing them back I created LinuxBand.
I hope you'll enjoy it.
Ales
LinuxBand is a GUI front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI
Accompaniment)<http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/>.
Type in the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical
accompaniment for you.
It’s an open source alternative to Band-in-a-Box featuring:
- Easy to use graphical interface
- Open and well-documented data format
- Output to JACK Midi <http://jackaudio.org/> to facilitate co-operation
with other audio applications
Home page: http://linuxband.org/
Project page: https://github.com/noseka1/linuxband
Dependencies:
1. smf (found by ./configure)
2. python-gtksourceview2 (found trying to run it--please test for this in
./configure script).
Ideas:
1. No need to require jack for simple MIDI. Maybe allow an option here.
(Unfortunately, my jack is not working right now so could not play anything
:-()
2. With or without jack, need to be able to set some MIDI output device.
Better, program should show up as an alsa/jack MIDI source which can be
connected using jack or alsa connections such as in qjackctl. (I see no
provision for this in mma's CLI, however--does it do stdin->stdout?)
3. You might look at Jammer's interface. The measures/bars view show chords
and styles (plus user part names and such). There is indication of tempo
changes, key and time signatures and such, all in place and all visible.
A lot of space is wasted here for huge chord names. Waltzes would have three
beats per bar, program still shows four.
Jammer also has a tracks pane but leave that for the future. Nice, but mixing
can be done elsewhere, routing through other tooks such as kmid, ardour, etc.
11:07 p.m.
Thank you for your testing and suggestions.
Dependencies:
1. smf (found by ./configure)
2. python-gtksourceview2 (found trying to run it--please test for this in
./configure script).
The check for python-gtksourceview2 is missing. The full list of
dependencies can be found here: http://linuxband.org/documentation.html
Ideas:
1. No need to require jack for simple MIDI. Maybe allow an option here.
(Unfortunately, my jack is not working right now so could not play anything
:-()
This would need more work I'm not going to do. For serious audio work on
Linux you have to use JACK so I went straight for it.
2. With or without jack, need to be able to set some MIDI output device.
Better, program should show up as an alsa/jack MIDI source which can be
connected using jack or alsa connections such as in qjackctl. (I see no
provision for this in mma's CLI, however--does it do stdin->stdout?)
Don't know if I understand correctly. LinuxBand will create a JACK Midi
port called linuxband-player. You can connect it using qjackctl. mma cli is
a Midi generator not a player.
3. You might look at Jammer's interface. The
measures/bars view show
chords and styles (plus user part names and such). There is indication of
tempo changes, key and time signatures and such, all in place and all
visible.
Yes, thanks, I'll check it out for inspiration.
13 Feb
13 Feb
4:51 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Ales Nosek wrote:
LinuxBand is a GUI front-end for MMA (Musical MIDI
Accompaniment). Type in
the chords, choose the groove and LinuxBand will play a musical
accompaniment for you.
http://pastebin.com/MTdzu3pJ
Ubuntu 11.10. All dependencies listed in docs are met.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
9:27 a.m.
http://pastebin.com/MTdzu3pJ
Ubuntu 11.10. All dependencies listed in docs are met.
Thanks for pointing this out. Please, apply the attached patch and make
again:
patch < Makefile.in.diff
make
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