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Sawlidsyngui 0.7 released PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 19:48

In the download section you can find the version 0.7  (still alpha) of Sawlidsyngui, a midi controller for Sawlidsyn synth. Now the package contains the synth Sawlidsyn (no more need of the Sawlidsyn package).

After the compilation ( ./configure && make && make install), in order to use Sawlidsyngui, you have to start Jack first, then launch Sawlidsyngui from the command line:

$ sawlidsyngui

A basic help is provided:

$ sawlidsyngui --help
Usage:
--help display this help
--synth synth [MCS1 | SCS1]
--userconf use USER configuration file
--userbank use USER preset bank
--preset Preset [0]
Example 1: sawlidsyngui --synth MCS1 --userconf --userbank --preset 123
Example 2: sawlidsyngui --synth SCS1 --preset 9

After some seconds (Supercollider server has to start), you'll find the GUI and a terminal with the Supercollider's sclang. You can use it as a standalone synth. The synth written in Supercollider and the Gui communicate through MIDI (ALSA).

I remind you that Sawlidsyngui and Sawlidsyn are an experiment !! Be aware of this.

Saturday 25  February 2012  I'll test the synth in a live contest ( live with I Modium, Associazione Trois - Ex Osteria Alle Piramidi - Rivignano, Udine, Italy).
Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 20:12
 
Sawlidsyngui 0.5 released PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 16:01

After some work, the MIDI IN has been implemented, with some troubles. This is the FIRST usable release of Sawlidsyngui, a MIDI controller for Sawlidsyn, written in C++ with gtkmm and RtMidi libraries.

See the Downloads page.
Last Updated on Monday, 06 February 2012 21:22
 
Sawlidsyn-gui development PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 11:36

During these days I'm learning how to set up a GUI with gtkmm libraries in C++. So I decided to develop a GUI for my Sawlidsyn supercollider synth. This GUI communicates via MIDI to Sawlidsyn, in order to separate the control stuff from the generation stuff. So now Sawlidsyn-gui is a sort of dedicated MIDI controller, but it has only MIDI out for the moment. Midi In implementation is planned. Every parameter of Sawlidsyn is controllable by Sawlidsyn-gui.

sawlidsyn-gui screenshot

This project is strong inspired by VMPK MIDI controller, I thanks all the vmpk team for the work done. Some code is taken just from vmpk. Infact, it is possible to achieve the same functionality of Sawlidsyn-gui (dedicated MIDI controller) using VMPK! But I like coding ...
Last Updated on Saturday, 28 January 2012 20:37
 
Sawlider-Linux 0.2 PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 31 December 2011 15:42

After the release of SawLidSyn synths, I felt the need (or maybe not ...) of a dedicated minimal distro for running them. So I picked Debian Wheezy and built a simple bash script to install some very light desktop managers (openbox, fbpanel, feh, pcmanfm) and the packages needed to run Supercollider.

  • Arch: i386
  • Requirements: I don't know at the moment, but the RAM consumption and the space on disk is very low.
  • It is required some experience with linux environment (installing Debian, bash scripting, shell commands).
  • Very experimental! May not work (Wheezy is a testing distro). I used Wheezy because it has Supercollider packages, but I'm going to use the stable (Squeeze), and write a script in order to compile Supercollider from source.
  • It works also in the stable Debian (Squeeze) but the Supercollider package doesn't exist. So you have to compile it from source.

INSTALLING

  1. Sawlider-Linux is not a distro, it's a customized Debian. So in order to install Sawlider-Linux please download Debian Testing (Wheezy) from the official Debian mirrors. You only need the netinstall CD.
  2. Install Debian Wheezy in your hard disk. If you are able to, please prefer using expert text-based install. Allow login as root. Install only the base system, no Desktop environment, no Standard System Utilities or whatever.
  3. Reboot the system. Log in with your user. Please be sure that, in  /etc/apt/sources.list, the debian cd-rom is commented.
  4. Download the script with this command: 
    wget http://www.eclepticbox.altervista.org/phocadownload/sawlider-linux-0.2.tar.gz
  5. Copy the package in your home folder or temp folder and unpack it with tar 
    tar xvfz sawlider-linux-0.2.tar.gz
  6. Move into Sawlider-Linux folder and lauch the script installer.sh with: 
    cd sawlider-linux-0.1-tar.gz
    ./installer.sh
  7. Wait, take a coffee, and, when done, reboot the system.

Enjoy yourself with Sawlider!

 

 

 
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 14:13
 
Aggiornamento appunti linux PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011 14:49

Ho aggiornato i miei appunti su linux, in particolare per le distribuzioni Debian e Ubuntu. Gli appunti trattano dell'uso della riga di comando, dai comandi base, alla compilazione di applicazioni e del kernel, fino all'ottimizzazione e customizzazione di una distribuzione. Spero che possano essere utili a qualcuno, almeno come promemoria dei comandi di più frequente utilizzo.
 
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