-Laptop on battery balancing on the corner of the digital piano
-Launching a custom script piano.sh (I remember that the initial install process on ubuntu was painful)
(The script (3 lines) :
qsynth&
aconnect 24 129
rosegarden&
)
-Then hit record on rosegarden
-It works I can get the music out of my head
-Then I fight with the UI to select the time position to be able to playback
-Then I select another track to record another layer on top while the playback is running, I misconfigured the recording and it recorded over my previous track.
-Then I have lost my music.
-Then I test what happens when I change the instruments on the piano : rosegarden doesn't record the instrument change and the soundfounts are different than what my piano have so it doesn't sound exactly the same
-Then I close rosegarden, remember why I hate it, plug a jack in the line-in start audacity, hit record, play music to calm me down.
-Save wav file in a lossless compression format. Store it in a file somewhere where it most likely won't ever be played again, telling myself in a few years I'll just run a script that will transcribe it and organise it directly.
**
My setup is awful from a cold start, but gets better with practice when I remember how to use the UI.
The ability to playback an existing track while I record a new track is what I used it for. And the metronome.
The main problem with midi is that the sound fonts are not exactly the same.
I probably won't buy it though, I don't want yet another app. I am not sure if it will work in 10 years. The sound is not exactly what I played. It something that should have been an option in the piano and not a $99 option.
This was a big concern of mine too. That's why as much of Jamcorder as possible is open standards.
There is also a local web interface, http://jamcorder.local, that is fully extensible by the user. And the BLE and Wifi APIs are not locked down. You can implement your own app.
The biggest limiting factor IMO, are Wifi and BLE still going to be in common use in 30 years? That's hard to predict. But the SD card will still be there. Its a tough problem.
I think that's about as good as you can do, short of putting a screen on it.
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There's even a feature identical UART interface for the device. Surely that will still work in 30 years.
It seems the biggest future proofing thing is that all recordings are just written to an SD card. So even if the app doesn't work at all, you can always pull the card and read data off there.
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My current setup in comparison :
-Had to grab the USB-B cable from the printer
-Laptop on battery balancing on the corner of the digital piano
-Launching a custom script piano.sh (I remember that the initial install process on ubuntu was painful) (The script (3 lines) : qsynth& aconnect 24 129 rosegarden& )
-Then hit record on rosegarden
-It works I can get the music out of my head
-Then I fight with the UI to select the time position to be able to playback
-Then I select another track to record another layer on top while the playback is running, I misconfigured the recording and it recorded over my previous track.
-Then I have lost my music.
-Then I test what happens when I change the instruments on the piano : rosegarden doesn't record the instrument change and the soundfounts are different than what my piano have so it doesn't sound exactly the same
-Then I close rosegarden, remember why I hate it, plug a jack in the line-in start audacity, hit record, play music to calm me down.
-Save wav file in a lossless compression format. Store it in a file somewhere where it most likely won't ever be played again, telling myself in a few years I'll just run a script that will transcribe it and organise it directly.
**
My setup is awful from a cold start, but gets better with practice when I remember how to use the UI. The ability to playback an existing track while I record a new track is what I used it for. And the metronome. The main problem with midi is that the sound fonts are not exactly the same.
I probably won't buy it though, I don't want yet another app. I am not sure if it will work in 10 years. The sound is not exactly what I played. It something that should have been an option in the piano and not a $99 option.