On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:28:21PM +0100, Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:57 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:29:42PM +0000, S. Massy wrote:
> > > indeed. For example, I recently wanted to have a poke at synths: there
> > > is a staggering number of synths available for Linux (modular synths,
> > > emulators, you name it), but finding one that doesn't require a GUI is
> > > quite a challenge.
> >
> > Depends on your definition of "synth" I guess.
> > For one thing, there are a staggering number of csound patches on the net.
> > The problem is that few of them are plug-and-play in the way
> > that a hardware synth is. E.g. if a csound orc isn't designed to be
> > driven via midi, you have to hack that in yourself.
I've looked into a few synthesis languages, but, of them all, though
csound as always seemed to me most interesting, it's also the one that's
always seemed to me most daunting. Maybe I ought to give it another
try...
>
> Most DSSI synths should work fine in jack-dssi-host without a GUI too.
> If you run 'jack-dssi-host -n whysynth.so' (for example), it will load
> the WhySynth plugin and create an ALSA-seq input port and JACK output
> ports and connect them to the alsa_pcm playback ports, and you will be
> able to connect your keyboard or sequencer to the ALSA-seq port and use
> it to change programs and controllers.
Tried it, it works and sounds great, but I couldn't find anything in the
documentation telling me how to tweak the sounds without the GUI.
S.M.
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