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vahatraker - a live midi sequencer/tracker for pipewire/JACK

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vahatraker is a MIDI sequencing companion for GNU/Linux audio setups. Adhering to Unix philosophy, driving MIDI is the one thing it tries to do well, adhering to other doctrines - enabling expression, with added value of:

  • live editing
  • fast workflow
  • intuitive midi-in
  • unheard of time signatures
  • scenes
  • fractal turtles
  • fits on a floppy
  • doesn't make a sound

Frankly speaking, vht was envisaged as a re-creation of seq24 in tracker form for author's "studio needs" and offers similar functionality (and limitations). It relies 100% on JACK audio connection kit for input/output/synch and uses jack_capture for rendering. The GUI has similar dependencies as gnome-calculator and tracker paradigm was chosen to allow for rhythmic gymnastics otherwise hard to convey.

Low level stuff was done in C and wrapped in Python. Human interfacing part of contraption employs GTK through gobject introspection and was also contrived in the language we shall no longer spam about.

dependencies for pip build

pipewire-audio-client-libraries [jack_capture]

install

pip3 install vht