music-generator for FreeBSD?
Martin Tournoij
Carpetsmoker at rwxrwxrwx.net
Wed May 2 02:54:47 UTC 2007
On Tue 01 May 2007 21:05, ajm wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:15:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
> > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700
> > > Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Guys,
> > > >
> > > > This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can
> > > > give me someclues. Bearing in mind that I know zip about music
> > > > composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that
> > > > would generate short background slices of music?
> > > >
> > > > Say that I wanted some jazzy melody for several seconds. This
> > > > application would generate it. Or a classical tune. Last
> > > > night I found a possibly MIDI app for Windows; there were several that
> > > > Google found that mentioned Linux but nothing panned out.
> > > >
> > > > Anybod know?
> > >
> > > Take a look at Pure Data (audio/pd in the ports). I just found out
> > > about it. It doesn't really create jazz melodies but it such a great
> > > synthesizer. It allows you to arrange objects graphically, like
> > > oscillators and analog/digital converters and combine them to create
> > > sounds. It's a real graphical programming language.
> > >
> >
> > Ah,great... I'll give this puppy a try. I'm not opposed to
> > learning yet-another-programming-language. Just that I'm
> > thinking that at least *some*knowledhe of music theory is
> > necessary. Maybe not!
> >
> > gary
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jona
> > >
>
> try the following...in the FreeBSD ports
> audio/abcmidi
> audio/timidity++
You may want to try audio/csound, I just came across it.
The csound home page is http://www.csounds.com
Note that the version in the ports tree is a bit outdated, but I'm
updating it now...
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