Re: [SLUGAMuSIG] Sunday & Freewheeling

[Rob Joyner <robj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Andrews and Kazu Grime are my heros. Definitely check them out, even
if they haven't graduated from macOS.

I say that, though I've been squatting in abletown (sic) for a while
now, albeit with hexter and zynaddsubfx (softsynth champions, of the
free world). Must be a running joke between these two - _Hex_ ter and
"dont make music against god with this" zynaddsubfx.

meh, Ubuntu studio is teh Grail i tells you. Thank rugbyleague for DSSI
finally appearing in Dapper repo's. Having a song retain all its
instrument and effect settings in Rosegarden is joyous.

a mini review of freewheeling, my fav foss app.

Made for live creation and playback of loops, it has a lean interface
that uses a circular representation of waveforms (ideal for loops).

Fullscreen it's quite game/toy like with all the pretty spinning bauble
waveforms and simple immediate controls. Playing and having fun,
spontaneity, is a good mode for the brain to be creative in, and in this
case a great thing to enforce at interface level.

The layout of loops on screen is customisable to match the layout of
your input device with default layouts for PC keyboard, piano keyboard
(MIDI) and DDR floormat. Pressing an alphabetic key or midi note
proceeds to record a loop onto the corresponding key of the on screen
keyboard. Sounds can be sourced from other apps, the external world, or
from notes played live into the built in soundfont player. Then you play
back the loops to make a composition/performance.

Very much still in development but usefull as a sketchpad where you want
to move quickly. There are good tutorial videos also on the author's
site:
http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net/

seq24 is fun also. like freewheeling for MIDI. They both sync to jack
and you can use seq24 to to trigger/gate loops in freewheeling (sort of)
http://filter24.org/seq24/

What are people's favourite apps atm?

Is anyone using wired or lmms?
http://wired.is.free.fr/
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

Rob

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 15:07 +1000, Denis Crowdy wrote:
> Nick Collins, author of bbcut - a break beat cutter for supercollider, is 
> performing this weekend in Klipp AV, his duo.  Worth a listen I suspect.
> 
> Details:
> 
> http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
> 
> AV PERFORMANCE
> Sunday July 9, 2pm
> Klipp AV (UK/SE), I Andrews, K Grime, D Noyze
> Performance Space
> 199 Cleveland St. Redfern
> $15 (Concession $10)
> 
> 
> Denis