[BozemanLUG] A Linux presentation I'd like to see

[gary hildebrand]

Well, I did use MIDI with my (cough cough) Amiga.  I found a schematic for
an interface, so I homebrewed one and it worked great.  Like you I blew for
a Casio synth that had MIDI in/out.  I used Deluxe Music and Ageis Sound
Studio and got a kick out of playing a chord on the keyboard and after a
couple seconds, it would pop up on the screen as musical notation on the
stave.  Printing was a PITA with a dot-matrix; I'm sure that's no longer a
problem with ink-jet and laser printers.

One of the Amiga's unique abilities was the sound system, using Octomed.  I
had a 4 cd set with mods and some of them were dang good, and I was
planning to record them onto analog cassette or rtr tape, and make my own
music collection.  I was also interested in using them for television
productions (end run around ASCAP royalties and copyrights).

I'd like to do the same  on Linux -- especially if there were some MOD
players that would play the Amiga mods; I can probably get a whole fistful
from www.aminet.org and other sources.  I want to build my own box (as
before) for the PC, or find something that is USB compatible, then I'd have
incentive to pick up a Casio at one of the local pawn shops for i/o.

Gary Hildebrand

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> As some of you may know, I owned and used an Atari ST (Motorola
> 68000-based) from 1985 - 1995.  One cool thing about the ST was that it
> came with midi ports by default.  I remember spending about $200 in 1986
> for a Casio synthesizer that was fairly capable, hooking it up to my ST and
> then controlling it with a commercial program from Activison named Music
> Studio.  Anyone who wants a glimpse back in time can watch  the following
> link:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lSMytqdEY
>
> That's a Computer Chronicles show from 1986 that covers midi and has the
> Atari with Music Studio. It was only a matter of time for some free (as in
> beer) programs to be released... as well as some high end, professional
> MIDI apps.
>
> I bring all of that up because even though I was doing that back in 1986,
> I haven't really seen any of that kind of thing done with Linux... although
> I know such programs exist and people are using them.
>
> Here are the types of apps I remember using or reading about:
>
> 1) Visual music player... download a .mid file, load it in, see the notes
> laid out on onscreen sheet music... being easily able to change the
> instruments used for each voice... and then being able to play it back
> using the internal sound chip of the computer... or using a MIDI device.
>  You could also do simple composition but since I didn't know how to
> read/write music notation, I didn't do much of that.
>
> 2) Patch management... when I say patch, I mean the voices that your
> synthesizer has... being able to load and save them from a computer.  Being
> able to load groups of sounds in.  Being able to download new patches and
> have new sounds / voices to work with.
>
> 3) Sequencers... applications that could have 16-64 tracks and allowed for
> advanced mixing of multiple instruments.
>
> Again, I know such apps exist on Linux but I don't know much about them
> and I don't know anyone using them.  It just so happens that I have a
> fairly nice synthesizer (consumer grade) that someone gave me about 10
> years ago.  It has midi ports on it.  I believe there are USB to midi
> adapters but I haven't looked into it.
>
> Anyone doing music on Linux?  Anyone using midi on Linux?  If so, would
> you be willing to show others?
>
> TYL,
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