[Tobiah[_6_]]

On 6/5/20 3:12 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article , Tobiah wrote:

Unless you want to use a command-line DAW (?!!!) then surely you are
approaching everything from 100% the wrong direction ?!!!

Not from one direction or the other. I just want both.
Of course I live in the GUI, with browsers and audio
programs open, along with terminal windows.

One way I would like to work, is to write command line
programs that generate MIDI messages that are sent to
a sampler.

You need an Atari ST.
--scott


In the mid 80's I was absorbed by a Yamaha CX5M computer.
It had a four operator FM synth module that could be
triggered through hooks in the BASIC language.

That was cookin' with gas. I saved everything
on cassette tape, but didn't know what I was
missing. The first program on the tape would
display an index into tape counter positions
for the other programs. It was the inception
of a file system.

While I'm on nostalgia, had come across a commodore 64
with a printer at a thrift shop. I wanted to print
from the Yamaha, so I used the Yamaha's controllable
cassette motor relay to switch pins of the joystic port
on the commodore. Assembly routines on both ends worked
out a timing code to send the data across and on to
the printer.