Does anyone here know anything about Common Music? I've installed it to
have a bit of a play around, but I'm not getting past the sample code.
Basically, the error I'm getting is:
Error in function FILENAME->IO-CLASS: No file or port class for
"test.midi".
In case that's not specific enough, I include below the sequence of
console operations that brought about the error.
Starting up, I get the following normal console messages:
<cut...>
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/clm.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/clm2.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/midi1.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/midi2.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/midi3.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/midishare.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/player.x86f"
; Loading
"/usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/bin/cmucl_18e-pre2_linux-i686/cmn.x86f"
; Garbage collecting.
/\\\
---\\\---------
----\\\--------
----/\\\------- Common Music 2.4.2
---/--\\\------
--/----\\\-----
/ \\\/
CMU Common Lisp 18e-pre2 2003-03-25-003, running on rr.trudgett
With core: /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/lisp.core
Dumped on: Wed, 2003-03-26 10:53:00+11:00 on orion
See <http://www.cons.org/cmucl/> for support information.
Loaded subsystems:
Python 1.1, target Intel x86
CLOS 18e (based on PCL September 16 92 PCL (f))
*
After that, I cut and paste some sample code. First this:
(define (sinus len cycl low hi rhy dur amp)
;; sinus is a function that creates a process. the process
;; will play midi notes in a "sine wave" of cycl periods over
;; len number of notes. sin's value (-1 to 1) is rescaled
;; to lie between the specified low and hi keynums.
(process for i below len
output
(new midi :time (now)
:keynum (rescale (sin (* 2 pi (/ i len) cycl))
-1
1
low
hi)
:amplitude amp
:duration dur)
wait rhy))
So far so good. Then I do this:
(sinus 80 4 20 100 .1 .1 .6)
RESPONSE:
#<Interpreted Function "LAMBDA (LEN CYCL LOW HI RHY DUR AMP)" {480D3821}>
That is also as expected, I believe. Now this is the bit that should
have produced an output file, but didn't:
(events (sinus 80 4 20 100 .1 .1 .6) "test.midi")
RESPONSE:
Error in function FILENAME->IO-CLASS: No file or port class for
"test.midi".
Restarts:
0: [ABORT] Return to Top-Level.
Debug (type H for help)
(FILENAME->IO-CLASS "test.midi")
Source:
; File: /usr/local/lib/lisp/cm-2.4.2/src/io.lisp
(ERROR "No file or port class for ~s." PATH)
0] 0
Thanks for any assistance.
David
--
We come here upon what, in a large proportion of cases, forms the
source of the grossest errors of mankind. Men on a lower level of
understanding, when brought into contact with phenomena of a higher
order, instead of making efforts to understand them, to raise
themselves up to the point of view from which they must look at the
subject, judge it from their lower standpoint, and the less they
understand what they are talking about, the more confidently and
unhesitatingly they pass judgment on it.
-- Leo Tolstoy
> Does anyone here know anything about Common Music? I've installed it
> to have a bit of a play around, but I'm not getting past the sample
> code.
>
> Basically, the error I'm getting is:
>
> Error in function FILENAME->IO-CLASS: No file or port class for
> "test.midi".
I tried the same thing using a current snapshot of CMUCL and it worked
fine, creating the test.midi file. That file played fine using
"timidity". Your CMUCL version is a couple years old and you might be
better off getting a later version.
--
Fred Gilham ······@csl.sri.com
If there is one consistent theme to be found in the great works of the
20th century, it seems to me to be the presentation of a doomed quest:
the search to find something capable of filling that great void that
has been left in the soul of man by the repudiation of God.
--- Skylar Hamilton Burris
Fred Gilham wrote:
>>Does anyone here know anything about Common Music? I've installed it
>>to have a bit of a play around, but I'm not getting past the sample
>>code.
>>
>>Basically, the error I'm getting is:
>>
>>Error in function FILENAME->IO-CLASS: No file or port class for
>>"test.midi".
>
>
> I tried the same thing using a current snapshot of CMUCL and it worked
> fine, creating the test.midi file. That file played fine using
> "timidity". Your CMUCL version is a couple years old and you might be
> better off getting a later version.
>
Thanks, Fred. It didn't even cross my mind that it might be the age of
my CMUCL (actually, I thought it was fairly recent when I installed it
some time last year). Since it worked for you, though, I suspect you may
be right! I'll see about hunting down a later version and give it a go.
David
P.S. I liked the quote in your sig. Personally, I don't have a tenth of
the faith needed to be an atheist! :-)
David Trudgett wrote:
> Does anyone here know anything about Common Music? I've installed it to
> have a bit of a play around, but I'm not getting past the sample code.
>
You might try the Common Lips Music users list. Sorry I dont have its exact
name but if you poke around the CLM site im sure youll find it.
sj <·····@dummy.com> writes:
> David Trudgett wrote:
>
> > Does anyone here know anything about Common Music? I've installed it to
> > have a bit of a play around, but I'm not getting past the sample code.
> >
>
> You might try the Common Lips Music users list. Sorry I dont have its exact
> name but if you poke around the CLM site im sure youll find it.
Common Lips?
I dunno, sounds kind of slutty...