Atte Andr� Jensen wrote:
>
> Just noodled around with my old band-in-a-box, and searched the web for some
> clones running under Linux, but without luck. Does anybody know if such a
> beast is out there???
>
> And if not maybe some of the existing abc-tools could be
> merges/enhanced/comtrolled to do a similar job - of course one would have to
> write the controlling style-code...
You mean a Band-in-a-box style ABC application?
A fascinating idea. Actually I aired it myself here at abcusers a year
or two ago, but despite some positive response, nothing really happened.
Maybe because a lot of people didn't really get what it was about?
Band-in-a-box is a really cute program that makes a complete ensemble
arrangement based on a chord progression, an (optional) tune and a
couple of "style" parameters.
There already are a couple of ABC based rudimentary arrangement tools
out there, but it's definitely an area worth further investigation.
How about starting with a simple bass line generator, I mean something
that could turn
X:1
T:Example
M:C
L:1/4
K:C
"C"CDEF|"C"G2G2|"F"AAAA|"C"G4|
"G7"FFFF|"C"E2E2|"G7"DDDD|"C"C4|]
into:
X:1
T:Example
M:C
L:1/4
K:C
V:1
"C"CDEF|"C"G2G2|"F"AAAA|"C"G4|
"G7"FFFF|"C"E2E2|"G7"DDDD|"C"C4|]
V:2
C,4|C,4|F,4|C,4|
G,4|C,4|G,4|C,4|]
Actually, I think some minor modifications of Anselm Lingnau's and
Robert Bley-Vroman's chord extractor (found at
http://www.musicaviva.com/software/macabc2chord.txt ) would do that
simple job, but this is just the start of course.
Frank Nordberg
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