From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 02:16:34 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 7E77016A407 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 02:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4947A13C458 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 02:16:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 99529 invoked from network); 2 May 2007 02:16:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; b=Y6hkzpjzWFlv1rsr/qfA7enkI4wvObli9uOHOw9W59BV4Q0bFrZkrU0eDvs7XOdM+zSbJwfa7bJ65bzOCDbZZWT+Nen7uO973ulg/GdsSz4DPTnWFkbzYBC5FJt52A7HaorshmUGjEPVpcM2PJLOrKHtjJVSEqKzTWJvZF6mlwA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (ajm91qw@sbcglobal.net@70.254.70.197 with plain) by smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 May 2007 02:16:33 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: EOyUiqwVM1nHn.PyEvEIAR6PlDn_D9SWtNcW4WEn2AiQ7A_f55DcPuUlbqCUYoUe94qy1blJ4w-- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:14:54 -0500 From: ajm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070502021454.GA743@powerfull.bsd> References: <20070430154751.GA21982@thought.org> <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost> <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) 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: Wed, 02 May 2007 02:16:34 -0000 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 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