FREEWHEELING(1)

📦 version 0.6.6, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ FREEWHEELING(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to section 1 of the General Commands Manual — it's giving classic, it's giving vintage Unix, and it's giving a whole live looping instrument. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

NAME 💖

freewheeling — a live looping musical instrument

like, literally a musical instrument. that's the whole vibe. 🎹

SYNOPSIS 🌸

fweelin

that's it. that's the invocation. one word and you're in. no cap.

DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents, briefly, the fweelin command. quick little intro, keep it moving. ✨

freewheeling is a live looping instrument. using your keyboard or an external MIDI controller, you can record and trigger loops. that's the whole magic trick, and honestly? iconic. 🎀

press / to toggle the keyboard shortcuts help. yes, one slash. that's your lil cheat sheet button. slash is the moment, slash is the main character. 🫶

⚠️ real talk bestie: you will need to have jackd running in order to run FreeWheeling. no jackd, no loops. that's the deal, no negotiating, fr fr. 🎧

OPTIONS 💅

  • freewheeling takes no command line arguments. zero. none. don't try to pass it stuff, it's not that kind of girl. 🙈

the configuration file $(HOME)/.fweelin/fweelin.xml contains information on how to configure fweelin. so like, the config is where all the decisions live. go there. 👑

CONFIGURATION 🧚

the configuration file for freewheeling is now located at:

~/.fweelin/.fweelin.xml

notice that dot before fweelin.xml. it's hiding. it's shy. it's in a hidden directory. respect its privacy but also go configure it. 🌈

heads up: you might need to start fweelin from a terminal to update your old configuration. yeah, the old one. it needs a lil glow-up and it needs you to be in a terminal for it. sorry babe, that's just how it is. 😭

SEE ALSO 👀

  • /usr/share/fweelin/fweelin.xml
  • $(HOME)/.fweelin/fweelin.xml
  • jackd (1)

like, the system-wide config, your personal config, and your audio backbone. the holy trinity honestly. ⭐

AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Paul Brossier <piem@altern.org> for the Debian system — but it may be used by others, generous king behavior honestly. 💜

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

so yeah, it's GPL'd, it's free, it's open, it's community-coded. slay. 💖

okay that's the whole page! and since we're being cute about it: this beauty lives in the General Commands Manual (that's FREEWHEELING(1) to you and me, section 1 and all 🎀). no date on this one bestie, so I'm not gonna make one up — we don't invent facts in this house. now go start jackd, run fweelin, and press / when you get lost. bye babes!! 🌸🦋✨

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