Re: [LAU] A text-only environment for composing electronic music?

Hello,

you'l probably be happy to know the existence of three great tools : midish, linuxsampler and Nama.
1) midish is a command line midi sequencer with a lot of great features
http://www.midish.org/

2) linuxsampler, can be configured with lscp script (text files) without gui. You can have your sample banks generated with text files using the SFZ engine
http://www.linuxsampler.org/

3) Nama is a command line audio daw, with a basic Tk interface that you can disable.
Nama also offers a way to control midish so you can blend the two worlds.
http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html

Those solutions are used by several blind people with great success.

As for a future something which could be useful, i'm currently working on a tool to generate a complete audio/midi setup from human editable inifiles :
https://github.com/jerash/astrux

Raphaël

Le 25 janv. 2014 à 15:11, Mario Lang a écrit :

> Hi.
>
> I am looking for a programmable (text mode) seuqnecer solution.
> I know that Linux has a few small languages for creating
> MIDI files, like MMA. Even LilyPond can be tricked into being a MIDI
> file generating language. However, none of the solutions I have seen so
> far could be easily integrated as the center/hub of a full composition.
> I am imagining a workflow where I do not need to click my way through a
> sequencer, setting up all the content and connections, but rather define
> a composition in terms of source code. For this to be useful, it should
> include conventional sample playback, as well as real time MIDI event
> generation. I am not sure if we have a sufficiently remote-controllable
> sampler without GUI requirements, but if we do, I might be able to get
> away by using that via OSC or MIDI, instead of re-inventing the sampler wheel.
> However, it feels like it would be good to have the sample definitions
> part of the composition source code file. After all, I finally want all
> the meta-data required to play my composition together in more or less
> one play (modulo include files).
>
> This composition compiler should ideally support JACK, with stuff like
> transport control. It should be able to support optional hardware
> synths, which will be controlled via MIDI messages and mixed back into
> the full result via an input JACK port.
>
> I am aware of the KISS principle and actually love it very much. So if
> anyone has suggestions on how to implement such a workflow/tool with
> existing tools and plumbing code, I am very open to ideas and
> suggestions. However, I get a feeling that what I want is only
> convenient if relatively tightly integrated, so that I do not have to
> tinker with too many individual tools while trying to be productive.
>
> Any hint on how to get such an environement going is very appreciated.
> This is actually a long-long-term project of mine: Since I have started
> to play with computers, I have always been frustrated by the lack of
> accessibility of tools to create electronic music. I have occasionally
> managed to get limited solutions working for me, and have always had
> very much fun creating content when it sort of worked for me. In the
> good old DOS days, there were (due to the limits in what a PC could do)
> still some people trying to implement pure text-mode solutions, which
> sometimes worked really good with a braille display.
> I remember creating several tracks with ModEdit on MS-DOS in one
> particular summer in the late 90s. Using that felt quite productive,
> but also limited (due to a 4-track limit).
> When I switched to Linux in 97, I
> had many new things to learn and was quite busy, not really caring about
> the sequencer thing. But later on, I had to discover that the situation
> for me has gotten a lot worse now: All the big Linux sequencers were
> purely graphical and not accessible through other means either. The
> same situation is mostly true for Windows and Mac OS X unfortunately.
> The obvious solutions like Reactor, Fruityloops or Abelton Live are all
> far from being even remotely usable for blind musicians.
> As far as I currently understand, the chances of finding usable support
> for some professional screen reading solution and music composition on
> Windows is relatively low, plus it might cost me a lot of money. So I
> might as well try once again, and stay on Linux, where I actually
> belong.
>
> --
> CYa,
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