Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 04:53:31 +0200 From: Martin Tournoij <Carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kline@tao.thought.org Subject: Re: music-generator for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070502025330.GA86781@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> In-Reply-To: <20070502021454.GA743@powerfull.bsd> References: <20070430154751.GA21982@thought.org> <20070501012648.6f8bc95d@localhost> <20070501011557.GD24757@thought.org> <20070502021454.GA743@powerfull.bsd>
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On Tue 01 May 2007 21:05, ajm wrote: > 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 > > > > > try the following...in the FreeBSD ports > audio/abcmidi > audio/timidity++ You may want to try audio/csound, I just came across it. The csound home page is http://www.csounds.com Note that the version in the ports tree is a bit outdated, but I'm updating it now...
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