Re: MidiTalk - an Application for scripting MIDI and audio with StepTalk

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Tom,

I am long out of the MIDI and such scene, but the screenshots look 
interesting and good. Congratulations.

StepTalk is an interesting tool indeed.

Riccardo

Tom Sheffler wrote:
> I've been developing an application called MidiTalk.  MidiTalk is a 
> rapid-prototyping environment for orchestrating MIDI, Sound Synthesis, Audio 
> Samples and Rhythms using StepTalk (a SmallTalk dialect that is implemented on 
> GNUstep).
>
> MidiTalk provides some pre-defined controls and objects, and a collection of 
> audio-oriented classes.  It lets the user wire them together in new and 
> interesting ways using StepTalk scripts.  With scripts, you can define audio 
> graphs, handle events, and define patterns that are played at tempo.
>
> Here's a little demo of something I put together yesterday.  In it, there are 
> samples firing as percussion, a synthesizer bass sound, patterns written in 
> StepTalk providing the rhythm and the laptop keyboard is used for playing the 
> melody live.
>
>      https://youtu.be/z9Cpo_DA__Q
>
> The code is here
>
>      
> https://github.com/mclarenlabs/libs-mclaren-alpha/tree/main/Applications/MidiTalk
>
> and a document describing how to use it is here
>
>      https://mclarenlabs.com/static/miditalk/miditalk-book.pdf
>
> Building the code requires Linux (for the media layer) and objc2 with blocks 
> and ARC and dispatch.
>
> I've found StepTalk to be rather elegant. If interested, take a look and please 
> feel free to share comments (and criticisms).
>
> Regards,
> Tom