[LAU] [ANN] klick 0.5

Loki Davison loki.davison at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 09:47:23 EST 2007


On 12/7/07, Dominic Sacré <dominic.sacre at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 05:54:56 Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > > klick is an advanced command-line based metronome for JACK. It allows
> > > > you to define complex tempo maps for entire songs or performances.
> > > >
> > > > Its features include:
> > > >
> > > >  * Support for tempo maps, including arbitrary meters, tempo changes,
> > > >    accelerando/ritardando and more.
> > > >  * Three built-in sounds (borrowed from Ardour, GTick and FreePats),
> > > >    plus ability to load your own samples.
> > > >  * JACK transport sync support (master/slave).
> > > >  * No GUI ;)
> > > >
> > > > Get it here:
> > > > http://das.nasophon.de/klick/
> >
> > That's fantastic!!! I especially love the accelerando feature for
> > practicing. A big improvement over jack_metro.
> >
> > Only thing that might be nice, is if it read stdin for keyboard commands
> > (i.e. up-arrow/down-arrows), or opened an ALSA MIDI port to read CC's, for
> > things like modifying the speed and/or volume, or to stop/start the
> > metronome, etc.
>
> Yup... I actually have some vague plans to add OSC support, and possibly build
> a GUI or terminal interface around that.
> I don't know when that's going to happen though. Not this year at any
> rate... ;)
>
>
> Dominic
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I love it and i'm using it all the time! Nice one. ++ for the keyboard
control though. A tap function would be nice too.

Loki



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