![]() For example, Hydrogen includes "humanization" controls for setting amounts of swing rhythmic distortion, accent variation, and timing offset. Alas, that's not how a human musician plays, so programmers have looked for and discovered ways to disturb the machine's rigid timing, along with ways to affect accents and pitch, to make the machine's output sound more like a human drummer. The drum machines themselves can't help it, they'll play with absolute rigidity and never vary from the beat. In this entry we'll look at two drum machines/rhythm programmers, Ollie Glass's Breakage and Stephen Cameron's Gneutronica.ĭesigners of software drum machines often venture into the domains of random and chance occurrence in an attempt to loosen the mechanical output of their programs. Among the announcements for new applications I've found some gems I'd like to share with my readers. ![]() Linux Audio Announce is the official mail-list for declaring the arrival of new programs, the maintenance of old ones, and any other relevant newsworthy items such as awards and honors given and received in the world of Linux sound and music software. See the OOoLilyPond Web site for details regarding download, installation, and configuration. My tests were run with Open Office 2.0.4 and LilyPond 2.8.6, your mileage may vary with other versions (LilyPond 2.8.4 did not work for me, probably due to template differences). However, for quick work and brief passages OOoLilyPond is the perfect tool. The macro had trouble with large complex chunks of code, but I would use the lilypond-book utility for those examples anyway. I click on the LilyPond button (not seen in Figure 1), and the rendered notation is entered into the document at the cursor location. I invoke the macro, the OOoLilyPond dialog panel opens, I enter my LilyPond notation code. Figure 1 illustrates the how and its resulting what. OOoLilyPond provides a simple interface for inserting LilyPond-formatted music notation directly into an Open Office text document. Thanks to the OOoLilyPond macro my discouragement has evaporated. LilyPond's lilypond-book utility provides a mechanism for integrating text and music notation, but the process is indirect and requires input in LaTeX, Texinfo, or HTML. I've considered using Open Office for such purposes, but I've been discouraged by what appeared to be a cumbersome process of creating and importing the necessary images. ![]() Some students have asked for lesson materials in more permanent form, and some have suggested that I write an instructional guide. I prefer to compose exercises and other study materials for the individual student, resulting in a lot of "custom-made" paper-work. I don't use method books with my students. Program and printer both get a good workout in a typical week here at Studio Dave. ![]() I format and print lyrics and lead sheets, blank staff and tablature paper, performance announcements and set lists, and of course LilyPond-created scores. Recently I discovered a solution I didn't realize I was searching for, Sam Hartmann's OOoLilyPond macro for .Īs a teacher I have many uses for Open Office (and my Linux-friendly Deskjet 6540 printer). I asked on the list, received some smart solutions, all problems solved. I have a good basic understanding of LilyPond, and I can usually find a how-to in the program documentation, but I've run into a few thorny notation problems not addressed by the docs. LilyPond's flexibility inspires its users to demand much from the program, so there's a lot of code on display for inspection and correction via the list. Traffic on the LilyPond mail-list is always interesting to me. And if that isn't enough I've included four thrilling screenshots and links to three entertaining audio files to entice and maintain your interest. This week in my random survey of activity on the mail-lists for Linux sound & music software I'll look at two very different software drum machines and a keystroke macro that enters LilyPond music notation into an Open Office text document.
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