Horgand v1.02
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Sorry for the english :-)
This is my fist DSP program attempt, my first jack client, and my first
attempt to produce any sound, and i'm not programmer. 
THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH NO WARRANTY, and sure have tones of
bugs. 

Horgand is a organ ... generates sound like a FM sinthesizer in real time,
good reason for use a fast computer, there are many others programs who emulate a organ and sure
their sound is better, but i program what i need, and just for fun.   

You can modify the frequency of all "drawars" and use the "effects".

I'm not a DSP "guru" and belive me, i will never be. Sure Horgand has many
"noises", but ... i remember old organs ... they have many "noises" too.


Requirements:
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* Linux (Tested on a PIII 933 Debian sid and PII 300 Gentoo).
* ALSA (with sequencer).
* JACK
* FLTK (tested and compiled with v1.1.1)
* Libsndfile
* Midi Keyboard or virtual keyboard like vkeybd.    


Get the lastest version in :

http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/



First i want to say something, personally i dont like any kind of auto-accompaniment, sequences,
organs, because many people use it for work, and this is not good for the
musiciens. In fact i wonder the day when the musiciens dont want to record
anything, anymore. Only write the papers, and play live, that's music.

Thanks for this great drums and bass loops, unfortunatelly i cant remember
where i get it. If you know it, please let me know.

Thanks to all the people who makes wonderfoul programs, and specially to Paul
Nasca (from ZynaddSubFZ), always a inspiaration. Please read the Links
section bellow.


The bad news is .. now horgand is hardcoded to use /usr/share/horgand, maybe
in future version that will be change. Yes i know, the pitch of the drums
changes when you moves the tempo slider, well maybe in future versions, but
i like how that program runs on a PII 300, and ... pitch change? ... well
sometimes is not to bad ... and you can write your loops at your favorite
tempos.



How to add more loops? 

Put your loops in /usr/share/horgand and after you can edit your bass line
pressing right click inside an empy pattern. Sorry but is responsability of
the user to put the correrct numbers of bars and nominator for the loop. A
mistake on this can produce unexpected results.

Load & Save rythm file patterns in Menu File, also you can load you favorite
file with -r when you start horgand.

(Ex. horgand -r MiFav.hrt -b Default.horeb) Loads MiFav as rhytm file and
also Default as bank file.


How to start?

I think the best way is start Horgand, then save settings, and
restart. Also you can connect settings with some programs like aconnect. 
Horgand has a velocity metter, you can see your midi input events.

Load the Default.horeb, a bank file with some examples,  


Banks
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Left Click to put the organ sound in the main window.
Rigth Click to get the organ sound of the main window.


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This program has no mailing list or CVS or project page, and of course i
need someone who can write some documentation in english :-)
Any help will be apreciated.



Links
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If you want to hear something impressive please try this synthesizer .... 

ZynAddSubFX - Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Nasca Octavian Paul at

http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/



You can send your comments to: holborn@telefonica.net 

have a nice day ...


