Tiny terminal DAW

ttdaw is a tiny terminal based digital audio workstation made for fun, experimentation and learning more about audio, MIDI and terminal applications in general.

Compile and run

make
./ttdaw -c 28:0 -s soundfonts/general-808.sf2 -p 1

List all available MIDI devices with acconect -l.

Soundfonts

• https://dev.nando.audio/pages/soundfonts.html
• https://archive.org/details/500-soundfonts-full-gm-sets
• https://github.com/marmooo/free-soundfonts

Developer documentation

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coremidi
• https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/seq.html

Additional reading material

• https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/fundamental-frequency-harmonics.html