Re: Recording with linuxsampler

On Thu, January 23, 2014 8:09 pm, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:47:19PM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, January 23, 2014 10:40 am, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:13:58AM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have a system running linuxsampler with jack and a2jmidid.
>> >>
>> >> Can someone here provide me with a basic set of commands to do the
>> >> following in midish:
>> >>
>> >> 1: load a .mid
>> >> 2: connect to a2jmidid
>> >> 3: play and record the .mid file from step 1 with the output of the
>> >> linuxsampler instrument
>> >>
>> >> So far I have got to this stage:
>> >>
>> >> $ rmidish
>> >> send EOF character (control-D) to quit
>> >> Warning, no MIDI devices configured.
>> >> [0000:00]> import
>> >> Noisecontrollers-TBA-jordykiller1-20140120193859-nonstop2k.com.mid
>> >> 1.67: ';' or new line expected
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > double quotes are required around the file name
>> >
>>
>> Thanks. That works now. Can I suggest a more descriptive error message
>> for
>> that case?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll look at this one day; FWIW it's confused because it thinks
> that Noisecontrollers, TBA, jordykiller1, ... are variables you try
> to substract from each other.
>
>> > at this stage, you can start playback by typing "p" and recording
>> > with "r".
>> >
>>
>> That look to be working correctly.
>>
>> Just to confirm, the r option records midi data not audio data?
>>
>
> exactly
>
>> So, to record the audio output of linuxsampler I should be using an
>> external app like jack_record or ecasound...?
>>
>
> yes; if you need midi parts to be synchronized to audio parts, you
> have to tell the audio player to expose its clock and to midish to
> use the external clock, this is the hard part
>
>> Separately,  It looks like midish can be used to script the
>> import/playback process. Can you give me a little more information on
>> that
>> please?
>>
>
> the "import" function creats a empty project and loads all tracks
> of the .mid file. So importing a new .mid, discrads the previous
> one. Then "p" starts playback abd "s" stops it; basically that's
> all. There a "batch mode" (usefull for scripting) where "p" stops
> automatically at the end of the song.
>
>> My goal is to play and record a complete directory of .mid files via
>> linuxsampler using midish as the sequencer.
>>
>
> Take a look to the "smfplay" example script.
>
>> Finally does midish already have any filters for humanisation of the
>> output or should I be using other apps for that process?  I'm thinking
>> of
>> something similar to the additional filters in hydrogen which adds small
>> timing inconsistencies to the playback to give the output a more natural
>> feeling. In Hydrogen they call it "swing".
>
> Sorry, there are no such filters. Most of the filtering is about
> changing controller numbers, transposing routing between channels
> and multiple devices.
>
> There's a way to progressively quantize a track, but that's the
> opposite of what you need :(
>

Thanks for that info.  Fyi, it seems the latest cvs has a bug which causes
problems with jack at the end of the track or when the track is stopped
with "s".


Cheers

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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd