CLOTILDE wrote: >Hi everyone >An open-source prod ala Band-in-the-Box sould be very good. > There's a project called Autotrack that could be an interesting first step. http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/sratscha/autotrack/
> > >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. > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
