Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:15:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jona Joachim <jaj@0b10111.de> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: music-generator for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost> References: <20070430154751.GA21982@thought.org> <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost>
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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700 > Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > > > > > Guys, > > > > This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can > > give me someclues. Bearing in mind that I know zip about music > > composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that > > would generate short background slices of music? > > > > Say that I wanted some jazzy melody for several seconds. This > > application would generate it. Or a classical tune. Last > > night I found a possibly MIDI app for Windows; there were several that > > Google found that mentioned Linux but nothing panned out. > > > > Anybod know? > > Take a look at Pure Data (audio/pd in the ports). I just found out > about it. It doesn't really create jazz melodies but it such a great > synthesizer. It allows you to arrange objects graphically, like > oscillators and analog/digital converters and combine them to create > sounds. It's a real graphical programming language. > Ah,great... I'll give this puppy a try. I'm not opposed to learning yet-another-programming-language. Just that I'm thinking that at least *some*knowledhe of music theory is necessary. Maybe not! gary > Regards, > Jona > > -- > "Und das Schönste daran ist, dass die Mehrzahl der Amerikaner durch die > von Illuminaten gedeckten Terroranschläge so weit in Angst versetzt > sein werden, dass sie darum betteln werden, kontrolliert zu werden, wie > der Masochist nach der Peitsche wimmert." Hagbard Celine > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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