[Musix-users] Re: Musix 0.50

Mon Aug 21 23:49:09 CEST 2006

Hey Sean, I have this email as in my TODO list, just wait me a few days, 
please, thanks

El Jueves, 17 de Agosto de 2006 22:12, Sean Edwards escribió:
      > I play guitar and sing in a couple of bands.  In a few
      > weeks, I will be going out of town to play and sing.
      > Unfortunately, I am on my own, neither band can
      > travel.  So, I will go by myself with some backing
      > tracks.
      >
      > Did I mention that I play guitar?  Even though there
      > is great software available for playing audio files
      > (ecasound is my favorite), I can't use my hands.  I
      > have a very powerful MIDI foot pedal, the FCB101 from
      > Behringer, but there is no software that I have found
      > to control the loading and playback of audio files via
      > MIDI.
      >
      > After years of searching, I came across dispmidi from
      > Div Slomin:
      > http://www.sreal.com:8000/~div/midi-utilities.  I am
      > not a developer, but I was able to hack the code to
      > output MIDI information into a useful format.  So,
      > there it was, a utility to parse the incoming MIDI
      > stream from my foot pedal and launch a file, any file.
      >  Here are a couple of commads I used:
      >
      > dispmidi /dev/midi | grep Program | cut -f 4 | xargs
      > -i script.sh {}
      >
      > dispmidi /dev/midi | grep Program | cut -f 4 | xargs
      > -i  ecasound {}.wav
      >
      > The first command takes the program number and pipes
      > it into a script via xargs and the script launches the
      > file.
      >
      > The second command actually launches a file named with
      > the number of the MIDI program number.  When that MIDI
      > program number is detected, the corresponding file is
      > launched.
      >
      > So, there it is.  MIDI controlled (well, more like
      > started than controlled) playback of audio files.
      >
      > As I said before, I am not a developer, but I have
      > some  enhancements I would like to make:
      >
      > 1) Read a configuration file to set MIDI channel and
      > directory where the playback files reside
      >
      > 2) Make it alsa/jackd aware so as to be able to send
      > out MIDI signals. For example, be able to send a MIDI
      > sequence in real-time, synchronixed to audio file
      > playback
      >
      > 3)  Keep it a command-line utility.  It doesn't take a
      > lot of computing power to stream a .wav file through a
      > sound card so it would be useful task for older
      > hardware.  Also, I plan to run this headless and it
      > would be easier to do this from a command line rather
      > than having to set up some GUI frambuffer application.
      >
      > What do you think?
      >
      > -=Sean Edwards=-
      >
      >
      >
      >
      >
      >
      >
      > --- Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica at gmail.com>
      >
      > wrote:
      > > El Miï¿½rcoles, 16 de Agosto de 2006 23:50, Sean
      > >
      > > Edwards escribiï¿½:
      > >       > This is turning into a project and will have
      > >
      > > to wait
      > >
      > >       > until next week.  Last night I just received
      > >
      > > enought
      > >
      > >       > parts to build another PC, so I will put
      > >
      > > 0.40 on that
      > >
      > >       > and try the upgrade.
      > >       >
      > >       > Also, if you have the time and are
      > >
      > > interested, I would
      > >
      > >       > like to discuss a package addtion to Musix
      > >
      > > that I am
      > >
      > >       > working on.
      > >
      > > Ok, come on
      > >
      > >       > -=Sean Edwards=-
      > >       >
      > >       > --- Marcos Guglielmetti
      > >
      > > <marcospcmusica at gmail.com>
      > >
      > >       > wrote:
      > >       > > El Miï¿½rcoles, 16 de Agosto de 2006
      > >
      > > 14:44, Sean
      > >
      > >       > > Edwards escribiï¿½:
      > >       > >       > But, if you want to try now: just
      > >
      > > boot with
      > >
      > >       > > Musix
      > >       > >
      > >       > >       > 0.50, clic on "Install" icon,
      > >
      > > select knoppix
      > >
      > >       > > method,
      > >       > >
      > >       > >       > select package upgrader.... then
      > >
      > > choose a
      > >
      > >       > > hard disk
      > >       > >
      > >       > >       > partition where Musix or Knoppix
      > >
      > > is
      > >
      > >       > > installed and
      > >       > >
      > >       > >       > Synaptic will appear, choose your
      > >
      > > packages
      > >
      > >       > > to be
      > >       > >
      > >       > >       > upgraded, and apply
      > >       > >
      > >       > > And then try to upgrade all musix-*
      > >
      > > packages from
      > >
      > >       > > internet using apt-get
      > >       > >
      > >       > > --
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