On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:28:21PM +0100, Lars Luthman wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:57 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:29:42PM +0000, S. Massy wrote: > > > indeed. For example, I recently wanted to have a poke at synths: there > > > is a staggering number of synths available for Linux (modular synths, > > > emulators, you name it), but finding one that doesn't require a GUI is > > > quite a challenge. > > > > Depends on your definition of "synth" I guess. > > For one thing, there are a staggering number of csound patches on the net. > > The problem is that few of them are plug-and-play in the way > > that a hardware synth is. E.g. if a csound orc isn't designed to be > > driven via midi, you have to hack that in yourself. I've looked into a few synthesis languages, but, of them all, though csound as always seemed to me most interesting, it's also the one that's always seemed to me most daunting. Maybe I ought to give it another try... > > Most DSSI synths should work fine in jack-dssi-host without a GUI too. > If you run 'jack-dssi-host -n whysynth.so' (for example), it will load > the WhySynth plugin and create an ALSA-seq input port and JACK output > ports and connect them to the alsa_pcm playback ports, and you will be > able to connect your keyboard or sequencer to the ALSA-seq port and use > it to change programs and controllers. Tried it, it works and sounds great, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation telling me how to tweak the sounds without the GUI. S.M. > > -- > Lars Luthman > PGP key: http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/pgp_key.php > Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E -- smassy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
