Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Announce: Brainstorm
From: Div by Zero (dgslomin_AT_alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: pe helmi 04 2000 - 01:21:05 EST
Hi all --
I took a little time off from PEGS to write a unique little program I've
wanted for
a while. It's called Brainstorm, and is essentially a dictation machine
for MIDI.
Since I don't have a Web site at the moment (damn firewall), I'm
attaching the tarball;
it's very small, but my apologies if it's not appreciated.
Here's the readme:
Brainstorm
Copyright 2000 David G. Slomin
Brainstorm is Free Software as described in the GNU General Public
License
Brainstorm is a small program for recording MIDI data. It has no user
interface at all; rather it automatically decides when to start and stop
recording, when to save files, and what to name them. This is similar
in
concept to a dictation machine.
Because it is very lightweight and has no interface, Brainstorm can be
run
as a daemon at all times. That way, you never have to consciously start
up
a sequencer to capture a great new idea when you're brainstorming.
This, of
course, is the origin of its name.
Brainstorm takes three arguments on the command line: the name of the
MIDI input device (or FIFO), a filename prefix, and a timeout.
Brainstorm stores all incoming MIDI events in a buffer in memory. If
it senses that there have been no new MIDI events for <timeout> seconds,
it writes the buffer to a standard MIDI file named
<prefix>.<year>.<month>.<day>.<hour>.<minute>.<second>.mid .
Brainstorm was developed on Linux using the standard free OpenSound
driver,
but should work with ALSA or any other Posix compatible operating system
that
supports raw MIDI streams.
Div Slomin
4 February 2000
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