Topic by Mdashdotdashn

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Topic: Settings & Headless Raspberry pi

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to replace some Odroid with piano samples I was using with a RPi3 running pianoteq 6 because (obviously) it sounds way better.

The process was somehow easier than I expected since my default choice of distribution for headless audio (patchbox Os) has Pianoteq pre-installed.

After a few test & configuation hoopla, I managed to have pianoteq starting headless at boot without needing to start xwindows which feels pretty good. It uses jack in RT as backend and polyphony seems to be decent for my need (I'm interested in building chord progressions, not playing virtuoso sonatas which I'd be incapable of).

When I start Pianoteq from the command line, It seems to use the last configuration I had with the gui which is ok but now I'd like to explore some more parameters like polyphony, midi mapping of some functionality (like transpose range) and so on.

Is there a settings file somewhere I could edit from the command line ? That would be easier than trying vnc or hooking it up to a screen.

Thanks a lot
Marc
Thanks for any info

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Re: Settings & Headless Raspberry pi

Hi,
the path to the config file should be: 

/home/pi/.config/Modartt/Pianoteq67.prefs

It is an XML format and should be fairly easily editable.


Note that some other Pianoteq related stuff is located in directories inside 

/home/pi/.local/share/Modartt/Pianoteq/

eg.:
  - MidiMappings - which are not easily editable, but you can create the mapping in GUI on your PC's Pianoteq instance and copy over ssh to your Raspberry Pi.
  - Archives - storing everything you ever played as a midi file - this might came in handy for someone (I'm personally thinking about creating some tool for showing statistics generated from those files - some histograms of how often and for how long you play, what notes you play the most, etc..)

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Re: Settings & Headless Raspberry pi

Thanks you so much !