Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] It works on Fedora 12 AMD64...

[Pete S. <pst...@gm...>]

On 6/21/2010 2:49 PM, BV = Bob Vogel wrote:
BV> I have suggestions for enhancement that you
BV> could consider...
BV>
BV>   * I have a somewhat complete routine that
BV> accepts midi input, takes the difference between
BV> the notes, and then normalizes the intervals to
BV> mod(12).  It turns out that doing this gives each
BV> chord a fairly unique signature, and it outputs
BV> the kind of chord that is being played (Em7,C7,
BV> C7b9b13...for example.)  It's called Midi2Chord.
BV> Possibly this could be incorporated so that chords
BV> are identified as they are played.  That could be
BV> a data entry tool. Alternatively, it might be used
BV> to identify chords from imported midi files.  If
BV> you are interested in this, I could send you code.

Sounds good.  Feel free to send it to me.

BV>   It shouldn't be too tough to code a Chord2Midi
BV> routine that would do the opposite.  That way,
BV> given a lead sheet, it would be possible to generate
BV> midi notes. (Are you familiar with Band-in-a-box?)

No.  Is this it (http://www.pgmusic.com/)?

BV> I'm tinkering with 'gmorgan' (which is no longer
BV> supported by anyone. Take a look.) to do
BV> something similar.

I'll give it a look.  I'm looking at http://gmorgan.sourceforge.net/.  I 
just checked out the CVS repository.  Have you built this code?

BV>   * There is a wave2midi converter called WAON
BV> that will take a wave file and convert it to midi.

Now that is a difficult problem!  I found http://waon.sourceforge.net/ 
and checked out the CVS repository.

BV> Perhaps that could be placed on the menu as an
BV> import for audio files. (?)

Sounds like an idea.  Have you built this code?

BV>   * It would be good to elaborate the dialog box
BV> that controls voicing so that there could be volume,
BV> midi channel, device (or synth), pan, reverb,
BV> chorus.... I didn't find the mixing facility, so
BV> maybe that is the answer.  Anyway, I'd like to be
BV> able to use the Yamaha for some voices, or mix Linux
BV> voices in also with the Yamaha, use Hydrogen as a
BV> midi driven instrument (I like its sounds.), use
BV> Qsynth...and so on.

BV>   * Would it be a good idea to use Jack?

I use Jazz++ with Jack with Qsynth on Linux.

BV> How about Lash?

Haven't ever tried it.

BV> Anyway, Jazz++ looks very good. I hope you find
BV> this constructive...

I do.  thanks.

BV> With some guidance from you, maybe I could
BV> help out some.

Sounds good.  I keep so busy with my day job, I could use the help.

Pete