What about csound? This is a command line and text based program for handling synth stuff. Check out http://www.csounds.com
Matt On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Mario Lang wrote: > Hello. > > I'm a blind Linux user since 1997, and I'm also > interested in doing music on Linux. > > Since I'm the synth-type-of-guy, I'd really love > to be able to play with software based synths, a little > bit of step seuqencing, and some sample based stuff. > Controlling my SuperNova DrumMachine via MIDI (and being able > to sequence it) would also be nice. > > Well, since blind people are still very GUIdisabled in Linux, the only things I can >use are those which are either > CLI or curses based, > or expose their functionality through a easily programmable > API. > > If only choice number two is available, that isn't that nice, because I'd like to > be productive sometimes, and if you have to write yourself > every little bit of convenience thing, you are not really making music, you're >programming :). > THe biggest problem there is that you actually > dont do much realtime modifications. And realtime > changes to sequences or parameters of things are very important > for experimental type of electronic music. > > SO I've looked around, and found some stuff, but > still have nothing really useful. > Here is the list of software which is nicely > done, and GUIless friendly: > > Ecasound!!! Kai, cool done! But its not the thing I need > unfortunately. > > GDAM. Looks promosing because the workhorse > code is nicely separatedd from the GUI, and I already > managed to program gdam123 a bit to allow rate control, > but again, its not really what I'm looking for although > it seems nice. > > Ardour is also somewhat accessible from what I hear, but > again, its a multitrack recorder, not what I need. > > > SSM: I looked at the code, and it seemed quite > horrible to me. GUI and workhorse code are tightly coupled, I see > no way for me to get to the underlying functionality. > > What I'm really missing is: > > Some Sequencer which is capable of MIDI out and in > > Some Synth software which is controllable through that > sequencer. SSM seems nice, but its a GUI-only thing, > PD is even more GUI... > > Some LADSPA plugins seem promising, but again its too much > putting-things-together work. > > Can anyone add anything to that list? > > Can anyone help with the listed problems? > > Is some software author (i.e., the SSM author) interested > to work with me on getting GUIless controllability? > I'm not a good C programmer, but I'm at least > familiar with what we'd need to work efficiently... > > Or am I missing anything completely? Some trick > to circumvent the need for some GUIs? Can anyone > give an example on how to create a short trtack > with some samples and a synth line without X? > > -- > CYa, > Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> > | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 >
