music-generator for FreeBSD?

[Jona Joachim]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700
Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:

> 
> 	Guys,
> 
> 	This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can
> give me someclues.  Bearing in mind that I know zip about music
> 	composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that
> would generate short background slices of music?  
> 
> 	Say that I wanted some jazzy melody for several seconds.  This
> 	application would generate it.  Or a classical tune.  Last
> night I found a possibly MIDI app for Windows; there were several that
> 	Google found that  mentioned Linux but nothing panned out.
> 
> 	Anybod know?

Take a look at Pure Data (audio/pd in the ports). I just found out
about it. It doesn't really create jazz melodies but it such a great
synthesizer. It allows you to arrange objects graphically, like
oscillators and analog/digital converters and combine them to create
sounds. It's a real graphical programming language.

Regards,
Jona

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