Re: [ecasound] OT: MIDI Tools

Definitely check out the csound family then. It runs on all platforms,
and give you excellent control over what corners you want to cut and
which you don't. And you can render offline. I have never heard of a
real time ncurses front end for it, but with the new csound5 API one
could make one quite easily.

Iain

Sean Edwards wrote:
> The problem is Qt/GTK+ bloatware. If I do this with X
> windows, I need Rosegarden4 or MuSE, jackd, software
> synths with soundfonts, TK-707 or Hydrogen . . .
>
> I am not complaining about those programs, they are
> excellent. My computer just doesn't meet the modern
> hardware requirements to make it all usable when they
> are all running: AMD K7 500Mhz CPU, 768 MB RAM, AGP
> VooDoo 3D video. That is why I seek non-gui
> alternatives.
>
> --- Iain Duncan <iainduncan@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>
>>Sean Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks, I will take a look at it. Ultimately, the
>>>goal is to create a collection of MIDI and wav
>>
>>files
>>
>>>to play back in sync at a live performance. The
>>
>>only
>>
>>>challenge I now have is creating the MIDI files.
>>
>>You need to be able to *create* them from the
>>command line? If that is
>>the case I would look at csound and/or common music
>>( or common lisp
>>music ) which have many good tools for command line
>>scoring ( score
>>language, scot, cmask, pmask, many others I have not
>>explored ). If the
>>intruments need to receive their data in the form of
>>real time midi
>>ouput you can either make csound instruments that
>>output midi or use one
>>of the csound-to-midi score converters along with
>>any midi player.
>>
>>Iain
>>
>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>-=cybersean3000=-
>>>
>>>--- Iain Duncan <iainduncan@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>If you only need one midi port of i/o you could
>>
>>use
>>
>>>>csound to do console
>>>>only control.
>>>>
>>>>Iain
>>>>
>>>>Sean Edwards wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Sorry about this being a bit off topic, but I
>>>>
>>>>thought
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>this would be a good place to start my search.
>>>>>
>>>>>Recording and editing in Rosegarden4 or Demudi
>>>>>requires resources which I don't have. This has
>>>>
>>>>put
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>me on a quest for a console or ncurses MIDI
>>>>>recorder/editor. I have found TekTracker, STed2,
>>>>
>>>>and
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Common Music, but am looking for something a
>>>>
>>>>little
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>more intuitive.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you for ideas or links.
>>>>>
>>>>>-=Sean Edwards=-
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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