I am coding openoctave and am using it for a similar need. Just use jack transport to sync up blender's timeline and the sequencer.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Blender From: Toni Alatalo <[email protected]> To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> Date: 07/28/2011 07:01 PM > On Jul 27, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Ivano Arrighetta <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I were hoping in a mix between a tts, a vocoder and a piano roll. > Right, well as said by others here you can use the existing ones together > with Blender. > >> Yes, the idea is about midi sequencing in blender and sound playing with >> ladspa and external synths, if possible routing back the output to the >> sequencer. > People have sometimes done midi stuff with Blender with Python, pymidi and > such. Mostly for VJing with midi controllers with the game engine for > visuals. And nowadays using OSC (midi for 2000s), but AFAIK still for > external controller input and not for sequencing. > >> It's unlike, but really useful for working alone. This way a single >> application should have be learned to do everything. >> I could help with technical audio details since i can synth, but no coding. > This list is not for feature requests, but we can continue the discussion > somewhere .. If you wanna make a feat request wiki page or a forum post or > something .. Am looking forward to finding out more about what you are > actually after. > > Also I think it's better to just use the music apps for music. But > integration for animation purposes such as lipsync of course makes sense and > I understood there's scripts for that. For TTS there's an open source lib, > btw, Festival, but I don't think it can sing :o > > I don't know that fl studio, am curious to learn how you did the singing with > it, but I figure better talk about that on some more suitable forum. > > -Toni > >> Il giorno 27/lug/2011, alle ore 12:13, Αντώνης Ρυακιωτάκης >> <[email protected]> ha scritto: >> >>>> The baaic idea is about adding a piano roll, whose notes would also be used >>>> for a vocoder (both ) and the text to speech would be modulated on the >>>> vocoder. >>>> I made a text to speech singing this way using fl studio on windows, can't >>>> see why is it so hard renting some code from LADSPA and LMMS. >>>> As for the lip sync thing, it's just a plus about predefining facial moves >>>> with a standard skeleton. >>>> >>> LADSPA is like VST for linux. So how exactly would this work? Do you want >>> blender to support LADSPA plugins, which doesn't make sense since it's not a >>> DAW, or do you want it to act as a LADSPA plugin which I think will cause >>> too many issues to happen? >>> Basically we have to add midi functionality to blender for this to be >>> supported(support for midi file reading, GUI for midi+vocoder and underlying >>> system+algorithms), which is hard(see answer by neXyon). >>> 'Already well known' is not a justification at all. A better question is: >>> 'Are the algorithms well (as opposed to functionality) known and easily >>> integrated?'. 'Can't see why is it so hard' says clearly 'Not a coder'.In >>> the case that you are a coder and you do find this easy then by all means >>> welcome to the team :) >>> Fruity Loops and LMMS are widely different applications and Fruity Loops is >>> commercial so no chance getting any code from them, plus they are >>> -specialized- software for audio processing. For lip synch I think there >>> is/was something in the works with waveforms? Not sure though. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- Christopher Cherrett [email protected] http://www.openoctave.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
