Hello Blaise,
Thanks so very much in advance for the wisdom I feel sure you can provide.
I honestly admit to being a touch of a singer snob who imagines one can
only perform live with well other live people smiles.
So when Bob wrote of your creating, I confess I got rather curious as well.
As for command line music making tools, there are actually rather a few I
am learning. I am compiling a list with links, since I do not know yet
your distribution of preference, or exactly how you work.
Articulating my desires musically may make more sense than the ssh telnet
aspect truth be told.
In all honesty however, I cannot say with hands on firmness that I can drive
the car where I wish to go.
I was more of a singer / arranger than a songwriter until the past few
years. Now I have all this music I desire moving from the studio in my head
and heart onto sheet music, into performing form, as I am sure you can
understand.
Since I am writing full arrangements, all the parts with my lyrics, I want
to play all of the parts, piano, strings, guitar etc., that are in my head
and then
get the completed work into sheet certainly both audio and sheet possibly.
How I imagine doing this, is with a quality piano / keyboard that also has
several additional instrument options to simulate sound wise for composition
only for now at least, the other instrument's for which I am writing.
<Still awake?>
Now, this is where my visual memory, blended with my lack of first hand
Linux experience starts to get a bit...well hopeful.
I imagine connecting said piano / keyboard to the m-audio audiophile 2496
sound card I have in mind, using any one of the dozen or so tools for the
command line I am finding are included in Debian, writing each part one at
a time, putting the piece together, and transferring the completed work to a
composing package, you referenced Lillypoind, which is terrific, but
there are a couple more.
I am hunting the instrument along with the talent for the Linux side of my
desire.
The older the better in a way, I tend to be a buttons kind of girl, not a
touch screen one.
Granted I know some keyboards have multi-track sequencers built in. Letting
me <I think? compose entirely on said keyboard and transfer the finished
product...strong emphasis on the I think.
There may be another way that I have not considered, I mean besides the
traditional way of doing the recording, I am a radio producer too, so have
pro tools, a mac a control surface etc. etc.
Still I would rather use Linux because I know the composition programs
exist, that i may be able to script in Linux some of what I need...not me,
but tap into some sources for this. There is no real program for
composition mac wise, certainly not going back to the edition I am using to
run my pro tools setup.
The ssh-telnet aspect simply lets me treat the Linux box like a server,
running the commands from my main computer where I am already comfortable,
both with my speech synthesizer, and in a small way with the command line
based on my daily use of a comparative Linux shell.
Oh that reminds me, I spoke of issues with speech in more current Linux
Kernels. This is because the ability to use a hardware source for speech no
longer exists in the new ones, like in Jessie. Only software speech which
for me is out of the question.
One can compile the new distribution with the older Kennel, but that. is.
way!!! beyond me laughs.
Is all this making more sense?
Will have those programs for you tomorrow.
Thanks for joining the adventure!
I likewise thank you Bob for inviting Blaise to the party.
