| 2 Apr 2024 |
 Miles Dyson | I mention it because during the fair, in the evening they have a stage and people perform, I would like to setup a VJ/DJ rig and do a presentation. | 03:48:07 |
| Miles Dyson | That is part of the reason I am studying live music coding and modular synths. | 03:48:35 |
| Miles Dyson | He is there a way to translate a midi file into a program? | 03:49:00 |
| Miles Dyson | If I get an Axel-F midi, maybe a language model trained on Sonic-Pi could translate the MIDI into coded instructions. | 03:50:17 |
| Miles Dyson | https://freemidi.org/download3-8046-axel-f-crazy-frog | 03:51:05 |
| Miles Dyson | How do I play a midi with Sonic-Pi? | 03:51:48 |
 @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
If I get an Axel-F midi, maybe a language model trained on Sonic-Pi could translate the MIDI into coded instructions. That's a deterministic problem, so if you wanted to do it programatically, I think you'd be better off with a deterministic program. | 03:57:38 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | What role do you want sonic-pi to play in this situation? | 03:58:43 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | I've used sonic-pi more with midi out than midi in, like to generate midi tracks that I want to swap out the instruments on or whatever. You could also take the midi input and have sonic-pi generate the audio, perhaps adding effects programatically - sort of using sonic-pi like a modular synth. | 04:00:29 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | There are quite a few ways you could use the midi, and none of them are necessarily right or wrong. In the sonic-pi IDE, there's a tutorial section - part 11 is MIDI. I'd read through that section so you can bend it to your will for whatever sort of expression you choose. | 04:02:05 |
| Miles Dyson | How do I open a midi file with Sonic-Pi? | 04:02:23 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
How do I open a midi file with Sonic-Pi? Ah, so that, I don't think you can do. Sonic-pi can recognize the midi signal but I don't think it supports midi files directly. | 04:03:14 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | Personally, with my stack, I'd probably open up the midi file in ardour and route it into sonic-pi using PipeWire or JACK. | 04:03:41 |
| Miles Dyson | So I will need to play the midi file with a different program then send the midi signal into Sonic-Pi. | 04:03:53 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | pretty much, yeah. In the IO tab, there's a "midi inputs" section. | 04:04:35 |
| Miles Dyson | I am such a noop . . . I have not even opened Ardour yet. | 04:04:37 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | I've tried out quite a few daws, most of the free ones plus a few that cost money, and ardour is by far my favorite! | 04:05:21 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | You can just drag and drop the midi file in! | 04:06:03 |
| Miles Dyson | I am probably getting the ocassional clicks because the audio settings are not yet optimized. | 04:08:29 |
| Miles Dyson | As usual, I am already trying to run the instant I learn to crawal. | 04:09:01 |
| Miles Dyson |
You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it is normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf```
| 04:09:20 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
You can view the memory limit with 'ulimit -l', and it is normally controlled by /etc/security/limits.conf```
Oh yeah, the ulimit thing, that's a pain. Did you set up musnix yet? | 04:11:49 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | Getting "too many open files" from ardour? | 04:12:06 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | I had to work through this issue a couple months back, I think it was musnix that fixed it | 04:12:33 |
| Miles Dyson | No, I have been too excited and skipped a few important steps. | 04:12:36 |
| Miles Dyson | I got lost trying to figure out what Musnix is. | 04:13:06 |
| Miles Dyson | What is it? | 04:13:09 |
| Miles Dyson | . . . but I am still trying to understand how to setup revision control for my config files. | 04:14:02 |
| Miles Dyson | There is still a bit of basic system administration that needs to be established. | 04:15:37 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
What is it? It's this: https://github.com/musnix/musnix
Basically it's a repo that has options to make configuring NixOS for audio work easier. | 04:15:39 |
