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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

pipewire-audio-client-libraries / libjack-jackd2-dev
[jack-capture]

install

pipx install vht