The Open Octave Project.

Open Octave Midi.

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Open Octave Midi is the initial program under development in the Open Octave Project. It was chosen as such to provide an extensive range of tools for the composer who's workflow is heavily dependent on a midi working environment, particularly those users who write orchestral music. Currently, the team are working on the editors, and examining working technique right down to the last key or mouse stroke, with the intent of making the workflow as efficient as possible. Open Octave Midi is based around a main arrange window, and Matrix, Percussion, and Event List Editors. It's designed with only midi, and midi editing in mind. We haven't included audio, as Linux Audio already has a great program called Ardour, to handle audio needs, and we chose to not include notation, as this is such a complex component, we feel this can only really develop to a much greater potential as a standalone application within a Linux Audio professional suite.

Open Octave Midi has fairly simple goals: Midi recording and editing, in an environment to perform these tasks quickly and efficiently, using powerful tools at the foundation of the program. You won't find "Hollywood" features in Open Octave Midi, nor "clever" features to automate, and by nature of this particular technique, add a "mechanical" element to your recordings. What the user will have is simple and powerful tools, specifically designed within a total workflow oriented environment, to do the job day in day out, without problems.

Open Octave Midi is being developed to cater for most users and particularly for orchestral writers who use large and complex sample libraries, with all the challenges of library, bank, and patch management that modern sample libraries present, and we seek to solve these challenges in an intuitive environment that's as user workflow friendly as possible.

You can find a link to our newly released pre alpha version R1, for testing or simply trying out, on the downloads page.

Based on Rosegarden 1.7.3

Open Octave Midi is originally based on Rosegarden 1.7.3, a midi notation and audio sequencer, developed by Chris Cannam, and the RG project team. Rosegarden has been going for a long time in the Linux Audio world, and gone though many changes, and development. It's available in numerous languages, and has a list of features too numerous to mention here, but we'd like to add our thanks here to Chris and the team, and give them credit and acknowledgement for the code base we've started developing from.

Where Open Octave Midi is a specialised application, concentrating on Midi matrix, event, and matrix percussion editing, and the development of keystroke and mouse based workflow with Jackmidi intended as it's port device base for predominately orchestral composers and writers, Rosegarden has a notation component, and audio as well to suit a wider range of users, at a more generic level.

For more information about Rosegarden, go to:

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

 irc #rosegarden-user

Open Octave Verb

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In the planning stages at the moment, Open Octave Verb is an exciting project aimed at providing an environment for a more automated and intuitive approach to handling impulse response driven reverb, and convolution. Initial concepts are on the drawing board, and the project has progessed to computational requirements, and examination of user friendly workflow.