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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:28:21PM +0100, Lars Luthman wrote:

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> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:57 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote:

> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:29:42PM +0000, S. Massy wrote:

> > > indeed. For example, I recently wanted to have a poke at synths: there

> > > is a staggering number of synths available for Linux (modular synths,

> > > emulators, you name it), but finding one that doesn't require a GUI is

> > > quite a challenge.

> >

> > Depends on your definition of "synth" I guess.

> > For one thing, there are a staggering number of csound patches on the net.

> > The problem is that few of them are plug-and-play in the way

> > that a hardware synth is.  E.g. if a csound orc isn't designed to be

> > driven via midi, you have to hack that in yourself.

I've looked into a few synthesis languages, but, of them all, though

csound as always seemed to me most interesting, it's also the one that's

always seemed to me most daunting. Maybe I ought to give it another

try...

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> Most DSSI synths should work fine in jack-dssi-host without a GUI too.

> If you run 'jack-dssi-host -n whysynth.so' (for example), it will load

> the WhySynth plugin and create an ALSA-seq input port and JACK output

> ports and connect them to the alsa_pcm playback ports, and you will be

> able to connect your keyboard or sequencer to the ALSA-seq port and use

> it to change programs and controllers.

Tried it, it works and sounds great, but I couldn't find anything in the

documentation telling me how to tweak the sounds without the GUI.

S.M.

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