On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:01 AM, rosea.grammostola <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/05/2013 06:22 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:51 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky<znmeb@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> I've used Impro-Visor, although it's oriented towards jazz and >>> learning to improvise rather than providing a generic accompaniment >>> tool set. >> >> >> As the author of MMA I'd like to invite you all to give it a try. I >> can tell you that I use it and the generated MIDI files on daily >> basis for practice and for the occasional solo gig. >> >> http://www.mellowood.ca/mma > > > Working from a command line/ script is not my most favorite workflow when > composing or music editing. I tried the gui Linuxband, but found two major > drawbacks for me: Sorry about the GUI thing. But, I'm convinced that editing a script is the easy way to do things. We'll agree to disagree here. > > 1) no mixer to turn off an particular instrument Please read the MMA manual. There are lots of ways to do this. > 2) no funk style Styles are really quite easy to write. That's one of features of MMA, I think, is that the styles (and songs files) are all in plain text. > > And probably it would be more easy to have a more flexible way to route midi > to a certain sample (also without a 'hard coded' instrument number). MMA supports translation tables. So you can call any midi "voice" anything you want. But, please remember, that MMA's job is to create a midi file. Once that is done, you can use that file with any other midi-aware DAW or whatever. > > I was searching for an alternative to impro-visor, cause that Java app is > slow, but afaik it's the best option still. > > \r > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
