Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:14:54 -0500 From: ajm <ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: music-generator for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070502021454.GA743@powerfull.bsd> In-Reply-To: <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org> References: <20070430154751.GA21982@thought.org> <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost> <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:15:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 Sch?nste daran ist, dass die Mehrzahl der Amerikaner durch die > > von Illuminaten gedeckten Terroranschl?ge so weit in Angst versetzt > > sein werden, dass sie darum betteln werden, kontrolliert zu werden, wie > > der Masochist nach der Peitsche wimmert." Hagbard Celine > > > try the following...in the FreeBSD ports audio/abcmidi audio/timidity++ -- Alexander FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
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