On Fri, 1 May 2009 06:49:41 am Josh Lawrence wrote: Freewheeling is designed as a keyboard/ external device controlled program. The best thing to do is to look at the video tutorials on the freewheeling website. But the basic premise is really simple. 1) Setup your inputs and outputs using patchage or qjack ctl. 2) Use the keyboard or an external device to trigger loops. On the keyboard for example the first press of a trigger (most keys on the keyboard) starts recording a loop. the second press ends recording and starts playback. further presses of the same trigger switch the loop on and off. 3) Midi Keyboards, Mixers like the BCF2000 or joysticks can be used as trigger devices (I have both a dancemat and a custom built stomp box from a converted cheap usb joystick). 4) here are a few of the more important keyboard combinations. F1 - sync to loop. Use this will make sure that all future loops will be recorded as multiples of the most recently recorded loop. This can help if you are not able to keep everything in sync manually. F7 - save loops to disk. also saves your set so you can get back to working on the same session. ? - a list of all keyboard bindings. TAB - switch the displayed trigger device. Pause/Break - make freewheeling full screen. printscreen - save an audio stream of everything that is happening. Spacebar + loop trigger - erase loop ALT + Spacebar - clear all loops 5) everything is configured by editing a bunch of xml files in a folder called .fweelin in your home folder. the most interesting settings to begin with are in basics.xml.... But it is possible using this to write a screen layout for a new device and configure exactly how that device interacts with freewheeling. -- I was working on a case. It had to be a case, because I couldn't afford a desk. Then I saw her. This tall blond lady. She must have been tall because I was on the third floor. She rolled her deep blue eyes towards me. I picked them up and rolled them back. We kissed. She screamed. I took the cigarette from my mouth and kissed her again.

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote: I remembered something: One of the mail reasons I didn't pursue Freewheeling was it didn't support import of existing audio loops. Getting it to do so required putting the loops in a certain directory and doing some other magic. File | Import wasn't it... :) If this has changed, lemme know. -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

Danni Coy wrote: Is it possible to sync freewheelin to something else either 1) jack, 2) midi clock or 3) osc messages? I'm asking because it might be relevant for the original poster should he want to record from another piece of software. But also I'm thinking about using freewheelin alongside my currently chuck based live environment, possibly even running freewhelin on another laptop then the one running chuck. -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk

Freewheeling can use Fluid-synth internally but turns that straight to audio (ogg is not the only format possible)... You only really do the loop thing - no quantization. Editing can be done but is limited loops can be overdubbed into to mix old and new parts or erased and re-recorded. Freewheeling is simple enough to use in a live sense that you feel like you are performing more so than editing sound. For me it works best from a foot controller because that leaves my hands free to play instruments. On Fri, 1 May 2009 11:53:27 pm Atte André Jensen wrote: -- Why are programmers non-productive? Because their time is wasted in meetings. Why are programmers rebellious? Because the management interferes too much. Why are the programmers resigning one by one? Because they are burnt out. Having worked for poor management, they no longer value their jobs. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"