Audio setup old

Specific notes on my workflow. General notes on Audio.

• MIDI hardware
  • Yamaha DJX
  • Korg Nanokontrol 2
  • Numark DJ2GO

• Desire
  • MIDI controlled MIDI looping - no software good enough yet.
  • MIDI effect send and control
  • MIDI controlled MIDI routing/switching
  • Part selection and control? 'mod' key for function
  • Easy BPM alteration from a Jack master. Decimal numbers for fine control?

• Parts
  • Kick
  • Snare
  • Hi-hat
  • Other percussion
  • Bass
  • Phrase 1
  • Phrase 2
  • Phrase 3

• Keyboard control splits
  • part mute toggle - instant
  • part mute toggle - on repeat
  • part pattern switching
  • part preset switching
  • LFO frequency fraction selection for effects
  • playing notes

• Session management
  • Non Session Manager
  • http://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html

• MIDI software
  • mididings - scripting, switching via 'scene' changes
  • GMIDImonitor - displays traditional MIDI CC names
  • sequencer64 - no MIDI record control or MIDI learn yet
  • harmonySEQ - no MIDI record. sequences and LFOs with multiple patterns, MIDI learn, some event scripting

• Audio software
  • ALSA/JACK
  • Non Mixer
  • Ingen - lv2 host and patcher

• Software not used
  • Giada - audio/midi looping - problems between nanoKONTROL2s no button off note off CC and parameter scales. fiddly midi control; learn but no 'mod' like sequencer64, i.e., no MIDI 'channel' (sample/sequence) select or channel groups - every item requires unique MIDI CCs and learns for each of it's functions.

Session setup commands:

cadence-session-start -s
  # cadence script to start jackd, divert from pulseaudio, etc.
    # if that fails, cadence-session-start --reset

cadence
  # gui, optional

non-session-manager -- --session-root path/to/project
  # list of applications to run:

jackpatch
  # nsm specific util to save and restore jack connections

patchage
  # connection manager gui. ctrl-g, ctrl-f to sort connections

non-mixer
  # modular mixer, osc/cv controllable

nsm-sequencer64
  # wrapper for nsm-proxy, requires an empty midi file

nsm-ingen
  # check under nsm, copy in blank project, start ingen modular host engine and gui 
  # ingen -eg project.ingen

jack_midi_clock
  # transforms JACK transport tempo beats to MIDI ~Clock pulses

aj-snapshot -r projectname.xml 
  # restore jack connections
aj-snapshot projectname.xml 
  # save jack connections