Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is there something like Band-in-a-Box?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is there something like Band-in-a-Box?
From: CLOTILDE (guy.clotilde_AT_wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 14:24:03 EET


Hi everyone
An open-source prod ala Band-in-the-Box sould be very good.

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:48:02 -0500
"David Gerard Matthews Jr." <dgm4+@pitt.edu> wrote:

> Although, interestingly enough, it would probably be easier to implement
> a Band-in-a-Box like program on Linux than on other operating systems
> (provided one had both the necessary jazz expertise and the time - both
> very big assumptions). You could probably use PD or jMax for this sort
> of thing (again, assuming an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz
> accompanimental styles and an awful lot of time....)

BBox plays lot of styles, not only jazz. And I think the way it works is quite like this (I'm not a programmer, but a musician ): on a chord loop, say for example Gm, the performance of a musician is recorded via midi, during 2-4 bars. BBox will replay this, translating the notes as the chords changes. I mean if the new chord is G (without the b flat, but with a b) every b flat are changed to a b. If the chord changes to C , the b which is the third in G scale is translated into E which is the 3rd in C scale. And so on for the other notes.
What would be great with open-source, is that the styles 'll be made by free contributors. You got to know there is still many BBox-styles contributors world-wide. The best should be the possibility to use those existing styles. Having a great prog like this under linux will help a lot of musicians as it helped me with my good old atari 1040 STE.

If anyone is starting this project, I want to be part of it.
I can help in music, test and web page design.

> -dgm
>
> Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > >This is slightly off the topic.
> >
> > au contraire. very much on topic.
> >

I succeeded in launching bbox under wine, but the sound is quite slow and bad. Maybe I sould try better.


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