From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 01:13:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B6216A402 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 01:13:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C67E113C469 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 01:13:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l411FwWG024957; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l411Fv8q024956; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:15:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:15:57 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Jona Joachim Message-ID: <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org> References: <20070430154751.GA21982@thought.org> <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: music-generator for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 01:13:42 -0000 On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700 > Gary Kline 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