Hi Julien, Yes, the setBfree synth engine is just that: a standalone app. You can pass it commandline options, but it is not interactive on the terminal. It takes MIDI messages (JACK-MIDI or ALSA-sequencer) as input and outputs sound to JACK, nothing else. The GUI is a standalone app (based on vkeybd for now) that just sends MIDI-CCs and MIDI-program changes to the synth and also features 2 keyboard-manuals (MIDI channel 1,2) and bass-pedals (MIDI channel 3). Setting up all MIDI controls (drawbars, key-click, vibrato, leslie,..) is not trivial and we currently lack standard-mappings for commonly used controllers or keyboards. So getting started is easiest with the GUI. The top-level Makefile will fail if tcl/tk is not available, but you can build the standalone synth via `cd src; make` and also run it from there. Example: `./setBfree -d midi.driver=alsa midi.port=129` Using the "-d" you will get a list of default MIDI-CC and MIDI-Program mappings listed to stdout during startup. You can customize those as outlined in `./setBfree --help`. The format of the config files is backwards compatible to Beatrix .cfg and .pgm files. enjoy, robin On 07/16/2012 02:05 AM, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello Robin! > You're raised to an angel, weren't they sometimes the bringer of very > good news? This is absolutely thrilling! > I have one question: Does setbfree still work with a text-based > interface only? Yousaid, that you provided a basical GUI for testing. If > you don't have any text-based interface, may I put in a plea for > something like that. I'd be happy for the time being, to edit all the > config files by hand and just use the typical MIDI controls as familiar > from Beatrix. Of course, if you're thinking of implementing some direct > control of the config features, it would be nice to have a simple shell > interface or something like that. But I could live without it. I like an > instrument once adjusted to my needs and then leave it at that. The > spirit of the old days. :-) > Warmly yours > Julien > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable; > Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS! > > ====== Find my music at ====== > http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html > ..................................... > "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, > so I never have to live without you." (Winnie the Pooh) > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
