Hi everyone An open-source prod ala Band-in-the-Box sould be very good.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:48:02 -0500 "David Gerard Matthews Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although, interestingly enough, it would probably be easier to implement > a Band-in-a-Box like program on Linux than on other operating systems > (provided one had both the necessary jazz expertise and the time - both > very big assumptions). You could probably use PD or jMax for this sort > of thing (again, assuming an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz > accompanimental styles and an awful lot of time....) BBox plays lot of styles, not only jazz. And I think the way it works is quite like this (I'm not a programmer, but a musician ): on a chord loop, say for example Gm, the performance of a musician is recorded via midi, during 2-4 bars. BBox will replay this, translating the notes as the chords changes. I mean if the new chord is G (without the b flat, but with a b) every b flat are changed to a b. If the chord changes to C , the b which is the third in G scale is translated into E which is the 3rd in C scale. And so on for the other notes. What would be great with open-source, is that the styles 'll be made by free contributors. You got to know there is still many BBox-styles contributors world-wide. The best should be the possibility to use those existing styles. Having a great prog like this under linux will help a lot of musicians as it helped me with my good old atari 1040 STE. If anyone is starting this project, I want to be part of it. I can help in music, test and web page design. > -dgm > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > >This is slightly off the topic. > > > > au contraire. very much on topic. > > I succeeded in launching bbox under wine, but the sound is quite slow and bad. Maybe I sould try better.
