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- From: lee@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Greg Lee)
- Subject: announce glib and adagio
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.163342.3383@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- Keywords: SoundBlaster, patch editor, glib18, music score player, adagio01
- Sender: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:33:42 GMT
- Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
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-
- I've put a SoundBlaster patch editor, glib18.tar.Z, and a music
- score player, adagio01.tar.Z, in tsx-11 /incoming. Below are
- descriptions.
-
- ----glib18.README
- This is an edition of the glib patch editor for Linux and the
- SoundBlaster (or other compatible card). I have left out the files
- for the other synthesizers supported by glib, because I doubted anyone
- would need them for Linux right away, but let me know if you do.
-
- Included here are:
- (1) source and man page for glib
- (2) "default.sb", a glib library for the standard 128 SB
- voices, derived from the .sbi files in the 0.4 distribution
- if the Sound Kit for Linux (some pathces need work),
- (3) source for setsb, a utility to initialize the 128
- SB voices from the patches in a glib library (e.g., type
- "setsb default.sb").
-
- The code for setting a voice and playing a note was taken from "fmplay"
- and "sbiset" in the Sound Kit.
-
- So far as I can tell, it is not now possible to use more than 2 operator
- synthesis, even on cards that have a 4-operator fm chip, so this version
- of glib only provides for 2-operator patches. I am a little vague about
- some of the patch parameters, and I may have made some mistakes -- if so,
- I suppose someone will tell me.
-
-
- -- Greg Lee, lee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu, 1/5/93
- ----adagio01.README
- Here are three programs for playing Adagio scores on an fm sound card,
- using the sound kit for Linux, or for converting Adagio scores to
- standard midi files and converting midi files to Adagio scores. Adagio
- is the scoring language used by the CMU CMT package by Roger Dannenberg.
- Most of the program code here, in fact, is from the CM Toolkit. Some other
- code I took from Tim Thompson's Midifiles library, and to compile the
- 'ma' program described below, you will need that library (included).
- The code for playing fm is taken from "fmplay" by Hannu Savolainen.
-
- (1) ad plays a .gio adagio score, or with the -m flag sends
- midi track information to stdout (save that in a file
- and convert it to a midi file with the tracks utility).
-
- (2) tracks
- adds header information to one or more files
- created with "ad -m" to form a standard midi file.
- Output is to stdout.
-
- (3) ma does the opposite of "ad -m" --- it converts a midi file
- into an adagio score. Output goes to stdout.
-
- Examples:
- % ad -m contin >contin.trk # compile adagio file contin.gio
- % tracks contin.trk >contin.mid # make a midi file of one track
- % ad -m all >all.trk # compile adagio file all.gio
- % tracks contin.trk all.trk >mult.mid # make two track midi file
- % ma mult.mid >mult.gio # decompile midi file to adagio file
- % ad mult # play new composition (ecch)
-
- Installation:
-
- Remove "-DTWENTY_CELL" from CFLAGS in the Makefile if your board has
- less than 20 voice polyphony.
-
- Availability of related stuff:
-
- Tim Thompson's Midifiles library was posted to rec.music.synth and
- is available by ftp from ucsd.edu as midi/software/unix/midifiles.tar.Z.
-
- The CMT manual, which describes the conventions of Adagio scores,
- was posted to rec.music.synth, and along with the rest of the CMT
- package is available by ftp from ucsd.edu as
- midi/software/unix/CMT.tar.Z.
-
- Greg Lee, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
-