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- Studio One 6.5 is now available as public beta version for Ubuntu Linux
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If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you
# Topic 2: Dasher + Guitar Hero style music theory/improvisation practice program
Back "on topic": I remember being quite enamoured/fascinated by dasher when I first encountered it. It's quite a unique interaction paradigm with the constant "forward movement" and "intelligent" pre-filtering/constraint of options with size-based prioritization.
Your suggestion to extend this interaction style for use in the music theory domain immediately appealed to me, as it intersects with some musical things I've been thinking about/playing with recently.
Over the past couple of years I've been playing around with ("rules based" rather than ML) procedural music generation primarily in the context of games.
This has been motivated by a couple of things: partly a procgen project is helpful as a driver for gaining an deeper understanding of music theory which I would like to develop for my own composition/production; and, I'm really interested in exploring ways of providing people with the experience of actually composing/creating their own music--which is something I think many people perceive as something only "musicians"/"composers" can do.
The latter is driven my own music composition/creation/education experience: I learned piano as a kid for about a year until it was "mutually agreed" that if I wasn't going to practice perhaps it would be best to stop. :D But I've always really enjoyed music, particularly electronic/dance/EDM, and wanted to also create it & not just consume it--over the years I played around a tiny amount with creating some but gravitated toward DJing as my primary means of musical expression.
Then a few years ago I started "more seriously" creating tracks with LMMS (a FLOSS DAW https://lmms.io) and while progress was slow it was still nice to be able to enjoy the results.
But I grew frustrated/dissatisfied by the fact that I didn't really know how to add more of a melodic component to my music. (I'm an Anthemic Trance guy from way back. :D )
Over a couple of years after butting my head up against Music Theory a few times and bouncing off again (not unlike my experience with Rust :D ) one day I suddenly somehow "saw" some of the (simplified) Music Theory patterns/rules that I'd not internalised/understood previously.
And then I could add melody to my tracks! :o I mean they weren't masterpieces but it sounded like music! It blew my mind. :)
Not long after I realised something I found quite profound: it felt like music, instrument skills & music theory had only ever been presented to me as a thing that you did so you could play other people's music but I never wanted to play other people's music, I wanted to create my own!
Which then triggered a period of "Why didn't anyone teach me years ago when I was a kid that you could create your own music by starting with a few simple rules & building on them? Here I was "many" years later voluntarily learning about music theory, trying to apply it and even practising scales! :o
Anyway, that experience made me wonder if other people have experienced music & its creation in the same way and what opportunities there might be (particularly within a game/casual context) to provide those people with their first taste of creating music through a "guided" experience of just playing (in both senses of the word).
So, yeah, the "Guitar Dasher"/"Piano Dasher" concept aligns quite nicely with that. :)
Not that anyone asked me. :D
Couple of related things:
* Your suggestion also reminded me of another FLOSS DAW I played around with called Helio which has a "chord tool" (https://docs.helio.fm/tips-and-tricks.html#chord-tool) which appears as a pie-menu pre-populated with chords that fit with the current scale/root. I seem to recall that there are commercial DAWs that also have a similar UI.
* While I'm not particularly happy with its current state (really need to upload the most recent version of the code, which I'm fractionally happier with) here's my first foray into music procgen for a game jam entry (with a "debug quality UI" for controlling the output), if you're interested in checking it out: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/the-conductor
* And from a different angle here's another game jam entry where the concept I was playing with was essentially using music theory concepts as the basis for creating combat interactions/patterns (e.g. "Oh, no, how am I going to harmonize with whatever that was that the boss just played?!") and it all takes place on the "Grand Staff"/"Great Stave": https://rancidbacon.itch.io/stave-off
(Unfortunately as often seems to be the case I ended up spending more time fighting with a Unicode music engraving font/standard than I did writing game play for that last one. :) )
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Linux for Video Editing and Photo Editing and Music DJ: Some idea?
For music making, it kind of depends on what you use normally but LMMS is a decent free DAW.
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My dual boot with windows 11 won't boot past intro screen or even into bios after failed attempt to fix frequent Kerbal panic.
Give a try to Ardour, LMMS, MusE and Rosegarden.
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Resources and such
LMMS
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Looking for projects to contribute to
LMMS can always use some volunteer time. 🙂 https://github.com/lmms/lmms
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Looking for some editing software
Take a look at: Shotcut for video. Paint.NET for image editing. LMMS for your soundtrack. All free.
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How can i set up a DAW and use a piano Vst on linux?
Consider giving LMMS a try! It has support for VSTs and soundfonts and you can connect your MIDI keyboard
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FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
I am not really qualified to access it's quality, but there is also lmms, which looks like it works well enough.
Not really qualified because I am not a musician and I was only using lmms to play around with a midi dials and buttons box, openbsd's sndio. and to see if I could get them to work togther. So in my case it was more of a systems integration exercise than making any music with it.
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Good and reliable tool
Bruh, use LMMS. https://lmms.io/
BespokeSynth
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Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition?
https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth
BespokeSynth takes the concept of a modular synthesizer and expands it so that the application is less just a synth and more a complete modular DAW. I've used it to create MIDI/audio workflows that I couldn't get exactly the way I wanted in Ableton or FL Studio. It also has a module for doing audio processing livecoded in Python that I'm just starting to scratch the surface of.
Video from the creator covering I Feel Love in BespokeSynth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYUgPMMpts
- Sequencer programme for playing live?
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Show HN: Polymath: Convert any music-library into a sample-library with ML
https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+generative+ai+site%3... ; #GenerativeArt #GenetativeMusic
- BespokeSynth DAW: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth :
> [...] live-patchable environment, so you can build while the music is playing; VST, VST3, LV2 hosting;
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I have a clear path for building our own Spectral suite plugins
Then I realized bespoke sync is also written in C (https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth) , and I learned about the ninja build system (which is what ysfx uses to compile JSFX).
- is there any way to stop apps from putting presets etc in /Documents
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Open Source Reviews
Today I'm looking at a couple open source projects that are dear to my heart: OpenParliament API and BespokeSynth. If you've followed my work last term for OSD600 you've seen me write about my work on Bespoke already, which is a modular software synth. OpenParliament, on the other hand, is a great site with easy to consume information about Canadian government, the API for which I'm taking a look at today. This is part of my work for SPO600, or Software Portability and Optimization, so expect more on that soon! For now let's dive into these repos and how contributing to them works.
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Jucey Details
In last week's post I discussed my plans to implement midi import and export in BespokeSynth, a modular synth making app that's built on JUCE, an open source framework for developing VST plugins. So far I've been chipping away on a few fronts: making a demo app to try implementing midi import and export separately from Bespoke, looking at examples of components from other apps that do what I want to, and looking at how Bespoke already uses some components I'll need to implement it.
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Bespoke Juce
For my release 0.4 I'm going to be working on BespokeSynth which is a neat program my prof showed me earlier in the semester.
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Creating Music on Linux
There is [bespoke](https://www.bespokesynth.com/) that creates sounds with an original interface. They have binaries for all the major platforms, its [open source](https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth) and [packed with features](https://www.bespokesynth.com/docs/index.html#circlesequencer).
What are some alternatives?
muse - MusE is a digital audio workstation with support for both Audio and MIDI
Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio
ardour - Mirror of Ardour Source Code
MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)
ebsynth - Fast Example-based Image Synthesis and Style Transfer
score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts
helm - Helm - a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation
seq66 - Seq66: Seq24-based live MIDI looper/editor. v. 0.99.12 2024-01-13. NSM support; Linux/Windows/FreeBSD; PDF user manual. Help access to tutorial and PDF. Beta code in portfix branch.
Tenacity - Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems. Project currently on an indefinite hiatus.
VeeSeeVSTRack - Open-source virtual modular synthesizer