TK707(1)

📦 version 0.8, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

🥁 TK707(1) — the drum machine page, bestie edition 💖

ok so this is tk707, and it lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, which is the "you type it in a shell" section, iykyk. pull up a chair, we're doing this together 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

tk707 — it's a drum machine. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tk707 [options]

like, you run it, you give it options if you want, that's it. no drama. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so tk707 emulates the Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer. iconic behavior, honestly. it can talk to external MIDI hardware, or to a sound card that's actually capable, or to Timidity plus literally any sound card that ALSA supports. and if you're not feeling live audio? you can also save the output to a file instead. 💾✨

the full documentation in info and html formats is available in tk707.info and tk707.html, respectively — so if you want the deep lore, it's right there. 📚

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

here's the little starter pack, copy-paste friendly:

tk707 -l
tk707 -p 64:0
tk707 -p 128:0 -display eve.imag.fr:0.0

look at that. three whole moods. 🍓

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per option, no skipping, we do not gatekeep here:

  • -l — lists the available ALSA sound output ports. window shopping for ports, basically. 🔍
  • -p port — use this port. the one you picked. yes that one. 🎯
  • -small | -medium | -normalsize — sets the size of the window, because some screens are genuinely too small to fit the whole thing and we respect that. 🖥️
  • -display — the display to use (example: myhost:0.0). 🌈
  • -use Window id — the id of the window in which to embed the application. you can grab that Window id by using xwininfo(1), easy peasy. 🪟
  • -geometry — initial geometry for the window. 📐
  • -name — the name to use for the application. 🏷️
  • -sync — use synchronous mode for the display server. ⏳
  • -visual — visual for the main window. 👀
  • -colormap — colormap for the main window. 🎨
  • -h | -help — prints a very short help. blink and you'll miss it. 😭

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

timidity(1), xwininfo(1).

go say hi to them too, they're part of the family. 💜

💌 AUTHORS 💌

  • Chris Willing <chris@vislab.usyd.edu.au>
  • Pierre Saramito <pierre.saramito@imag.fr>

genuinely obsessed with them for making this. 🫶

🌐 HOME PAGE 🌐

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this version of TK707(1) is dated March 7, 2001 — yeah, a legend from the archives, still serving looks 💅 — and it's from the General Commands Manual, obviously. mwah, go make some beats 🥁💖✨

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