Cacophony is a minimalist and ergonomic MIDI sequencer. It's minimalist in that it doesn't have a lot of functionality MIDI sequencers have. It's ergonomic in that there is no mouse input and a very clean interface, allowing you to juggle less inputs and avoid awkward mouse motions.

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I compile Cacophony with Rust 1.74.0 for Linux, MacOS, or Windows. Below is a list of operating systems I've tested:

Linux:

• Ubuntu 18.04 i386 with X11
• Ubuntu 18.04 x64 with X11
• Ubuntu 20.04 x64 with X11
• Ubuntu 22.04 x64 with X11
• Ubuntu 24.04 x64 with X11

MacOS:

• Catalina 10.15.7 x64
• Ventura 13.2.1 Apple Silicon

Windows:

• Windows 10 x64

1. Install Rust (stable)
2. Clone this repo

1. apt install clang cmake speech-dispatcher libspeechd-dev pkg-config libssl-dev librust-alsa-sys-dev
2. cargo build --release --features speech_dispatcher_0_9

1. apt install clang cmake speech-dispatcher libspeechd-dev pkg-config libssl-dev librust-alsa-sys-dev
2. cargo build --release --features speech_dispatcher_0_11

1. apt install clang cmake speech-dispatcher libspeechd-dev pkg-config libssl-dev alsa
2. cargo build --release --features speech_dispatcher_0_9

1. apt install clang cmake speech-dispatcher libspeechd-dev pkg-config libssl-dev alsa librust-alsa-sys-dev
2. cargo build --release --features speech_dispatcher_0_9

1. apt install clang cmake speech-dispatcher libspeechd-dev pkg-config libssl-dev alsa librust-alsa-sys-dev
2. cargo build --release --features speech_dispatcher_0_11

1. cargo install cargo-bundle
2. cargo bundle --release

1. cargo build --release

Cacophony's default data directory is located at ../data. To set the default data directory at compile time, set the CACOPHONY_BUILD_DATA_DIR enviroment variable:

export CACOPHONY_BUILD_DATA_DIR=/usr/share/cacophony
cargo build --release

To test, just cargo test --all.

Sometimes when debugging, it's useful to create the same initial setup every time. To do this, you can pass input events in like this: cargo run -- --events events.txt

...where the contents of events.txt is something like:

NextPanel
AddTrack
EnableSoundFontPanel
SelectFile

You can run Cacophony like any other application or you can use Rust's cargo run to compile and execute.

There are two ways to run Cacophony:

1. Copy + paste data/ into the output directory (target/release/). Open a terminal in release/ and run ./Cacophony .
2. Instead of cargo build --release, run cargo run --release Include the --features listed above, for example cargo build --release --features speech_dispatcher_0_11 on Ubuntu 22

There are two ways to run Cacophony:

1. After compiling, double-click Cacophony.app (located in ./target/release/)
2. cargo run --release This will compile and launch the application but it won't create a .app

There are two ways to run Cacophony:

1. Copy + paste data/ into the output directory (target/release/) and double-click Cacophony.exe (located in release/)
2. Instead of cargo build --release, run cargo run --release

Assuming that you are Esther Alter and you have the relevant credentials on your computer, you can upload the website and create itch.io builds by doing this:

1. cd py
2. py -3 build.py