{"id":2256,"date":"2021-01-02T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2021-01-02T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:46:40","slug":"using-jfugue-with-external-daw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/02\/using-jfugue-with-external-daw\/","title":{"rendered":"Using JFugue with External DAW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let this New Year 2021 bring health and happiness to us all!<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last article<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, I talked briefly about JFugue<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and showed how to access it from LispWorks Lisp<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0on a PC running Windows 10. In that example, the music was rendered by the built-in synthesizer. Although this is fine, it is sometimes desirable to play the generated MIDI notes through an external DAW because it usually allows us to take advantage of a much wider range of musical instruments and sounds. How to do that is the focus of today\u2019s article.<\/p>\n

I had written about UVI Falcon<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in an earlier article<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. I installed Falcon<\/strong><\/em> on my Windows 10 machine, along with the \u201cFalcon Factory\u201d<\/strong><\/em> soundbank. In order to play notes through an external MIDI device, JFugue<\/strong><\/em> requires us to create a new MusicReceiver<\/strong><\/em> object, bound to a suitable MIDI device. For this purpose, I had to download and install the free \u201cSpringbeats Virtual MIDI\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

To check if it is installed, I wrote the following Lisp<\/strong><\/em> function:<\/p>\n

\"Checking<\/a>
Checking Available MIDI Devices<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I ran it, this is what I got:<\/p>\n

\"Available<\/a>
Available Devices<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For this, as well as to create a new MusicReceiver<\/strong><\/em>, I had to declare additional Java<\/strong><\/em> methods in Lisp<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Declaring<\/a>
Declaring Java Methods<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not much of a hassle, really.<\/p>\n

After this, I had to configure the MIDI settings in Falcon<\/strong><\/em>. See this image:<\/p>\n

\"Falcon<\/a>
Falcon MIDI Settings<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0<\/span>You can see that I have mapped Port A<\/strong><\/em> to Springbeats Virtual MIDI<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

And here is the Falcon<\/strong><\/em> view with the two instruments I selected for playing the notes. I need two tracks because one of the statements uses two \u201cvoices\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (or tracks).<\/p>\n

\"Falcon<\/a>
Falcon with Two Tracks<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As mentioned earlier, I had to create a new player to play notes through the external device:<\/p>\n

\"Creating<\/a>
Creating New DAW Player<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used the 5th element (0-based index 4) in the list of printed MIDI devices for creating the MusicReceiver<\/strong><\/em>. Here is the code for the \u201cplay\u201d<\/strong><\/em> method:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Play Method<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are the notes that we play:<\/p>\n

\"Playing<\/a>
Playing Sample Notes<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note that the second statement uses two voices, V0<\/strong><\/em> and V1.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>When we run the \u201ctest-play”<\/strong><\/em> method, this time, the music is rendered on the external DAW,\u00a0Falcon<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Playing<\/a>
Playing the Notes<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, using JFugue<\/strong><\/em> with an external instrument is not that hard at all. Although it is unlikely that I will be using JFugue<\/strong><\/em> for my composition experiments, I wanted to make sure I am aware of its possibilities and limitations.<\/p>\n

Here is my Lisp<\/strong> code<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend and a wonderful year ahead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let this New Year 2021 bring health and happiness to us all! In the last article, I talked briefly about JFugue and showed how to access it from LispWorks Lisp\u00a0on a PC running Windows 10. In that example, the music was rendered by the built-in synthesizer. 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