Hy Julien,
i'm interested in CLI and text mode multitrack environment.
I can think of several advantages that CLI and text mode have against
graphical GUI:
- lighter CPU and memory needed for same tasks
- highly customizable using command line parameters and/or a configuration
file
- can be automated using a scripting language
I've studied some open source tools that have CLI or scripting capabilities
that should be useful for audio/midi multitrack environment:
- ecasound (audio recording and audio effects),
- midish (midi sequencing/filtering/recording),
- timidity and fluidsynth (software synthesizer based on soundfont2).
These tools seems to be pretty good now and stable.
I could point out, trying to use them together, that there are some lack of
features to provide a full audio/midi multitrack environment:
- audio and midi transport synchronization (recv and send) using jackd
server is not yet supported (midish/ecasound)
- timidity and fluidsynth do not yet provide a jack channel for each MIDI
instrument (Snare, OpenHihat, FingeredBass, SteelGuitar or at least, not in
an optimized way ...)
- color signal monitoring for each jackd channel (similar to the
alsamixer text mode output) does not yet exist (as far as i know).
Combined together this features should allow some more exciting experience.
In the meaning time, CLI/text mode multitrack environment could be setup
using an abstract tool such as nama (that provide a frontend to guide the
user through the configuration steps). It could generate some basic
scripting and/or configuration files needed to run a lighter (CPU/RAM) audio
setup for welcomed users.
It seems to me that this component view is more Unix friendly and should
have more advantage against a single and monolithic GUI software.
Friendly Regards,
Laurent
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