MUSE(1)

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🎀 hey bestie, welcome to MUSE(1) 🎀

MusE — the MIDI/Audio Sequencer — straight out of the General Commands Manual. Grab a snack, we're doing this 💖

✨ NAME ✨

MusE — MIDI/Audio Sequencer. That's the whole vibe. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

muse [ options ] [ file ]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer, and no cap, it does a LOT. It can record and edit sound files, and it can apply effects and filters — all from an intuitive graphical interface. It's giving "I do everything and I do it cute" ✨

It's based on the Linux-specific ALSA interface for audio i/o. The Jack Audio Connection Kit is used for routing. And LADSPA-compliant plugins let you extend the list of available effects — the glow-up potential is genuinely endless 🧚

Now, the optional file argument? That's a project file in MusE-internal format that gets loaded on startup. And if you don't pass one, don't even stress — project files can also be loaded later on through the graphical menu. bestie has options 🫶

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -a — use a dummy audio backend instead of real audio i/o. pretend audio. imaginary audio. iconic honestly 💀
  • -d — start in debugging mode, and that means no real-time threads. debugging era, but make it chill.
  • -D — enable verbose debugging messages. she's TALKING. 😭
  • -h — display usage information. the classic "help me help you" 🎀
  • -I — do not attempt to load any DSSI plugins. not today, plugins.
  • -l xx — force locale to the language/country code xx 🌈
  • -L — do not use LASH. (nope, not even a little.)
  • -m — provide debugging messages about midi input events. 👀
  • -M — provide debugging messages about midi output events. 🫡
  • -p — do not attempt to load any LADSPA plugins. sit DOWN.
  • -P n — set the scheduling priority of real-time threads to n. Heads up bestie: this is Dummy only, and the default is 40. Elsewhere it's fixed by Jack, so it's not yours to decide 💅
  • -s — provide debugging messages about sync events. syncing, but loudly ⭐
  • -v — print version information. who am I? 💖
  • -V — do not attempt to load any VST plugins. respectfully, no.
  • -y — enable Python control support 🐍✨
  • -Y n — force midi real time priority to n.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

MusE provides an integrated help system in the graphical user interface. so like... the help is in there, living her best life, waiting for you 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

MusE was written by Werner Schweer, Robert Jonnson, Mathias Lundgren, Frank Neumann, Joachim Schiele, Tim Donnelly, Nil Geisweiller, Orcan Ogetbil and others. absolute legends, every single one 🌟

This manual page was originally written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was updated later by Orcan Ogetbil for MusE2. the way this page got a whole sequel arc 😭💖

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially MusE-literate. go make some music 🎧✨

December 2010 — that's the date on this one, mwah 💋

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