tida1vm

Based on the work of DoubleDensity's Tidebox

A complete Tidal musical live coding and audio streaming environment inside Docker

Getting started

$ git clone https://github.com/lvm/tida1vm
$ cd tida1vm
$ git checkout 0.8
$ docker build -t tida1vm-0.8 .
$ docker run -ti --rm --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb --name 1vm8 tida1vm-0.8

MIDI Ports

All of them are connected to ALSA "Midi Through".

Device	Stream	MIDI Port	Tidal Midi	Soundfont	Notes
Volca Beats	beats	1	VolcaBeats.hs
Volca Bass	bass	2	VolcaBass.hs
Qsynth	drums	3	GMPerc.hs	GeneralUser	Bank 145 / Prog 25
{Q,am}synth	midi4	4	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi5	5	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi6	6	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi7	7	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi8	8	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi9	9	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi10	10	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi11	11	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi12	12	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi13	13	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi14	14	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi15	15	Synth.hs
{Q,am}synth	midi16	16	Synth.hs

The GeneralUser SoundFont is a work by S. Christian Collins.

They used to be named based on a particular use, now it's more generic.
In order to alias any stream, just write in your .tidal file, something like:

let something = midi4

-- now it can be used as:

something $ n "c d e f"

Custom tidal-midi Synths

For 0.8, I updated the General MIDI Percussion keymap module here with the idea to integrate it to the rest of tidal-midi.

midithru-connect

There's a small script in the helper directory called midithru-connect which connects clients to "Midi Through".

usage: midithru-connect [-h] [-v] [-a] [-c CONNECT] [-d DISCONNECT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         shows the current version
  -a, --all             auto connects all clients available
  -c CONNECT, --connect CONNECT
                        connects a client to midi through
  -d DISCONNECT, --disconnect DISCONNECT
                        disconnects a client off midi through

Extra docs

For more info, take a look at the wiki.

References

• Tidebox
• Tidal
• GNU Emacs
• tmux
• FluidSynth
• Qsynth
• amsynth
• GM Level 1 Sound Set
• GeneralUser SoundFont
• TOPLAP The Home of Live Coding