#Patroneo

Patroneo (which is Esperanto for "Pattern") is an easy to use pattern based midi sequencer that handles the three most important musical parameters: pitch, rhythm and dynamics.

Patroneo is primarily designed for educational purposes, where the main goal is to teach the importance of patterns and repetitions in any kind of music. However, Patroneo is a full sequencer you can use to create real music. The constraints it presents will more likely boost your creativity than suppressing it.

Workflow summary: You have tracks with one pattern each. Turn on steps in the pattern to play musical notes. Switch the patterns on and off in a sequence to create a song structure. Connect external synthesizers and samplers to create sounds.

This README is just a short introduction. Consult the manual (see below) for more information.

Contact and Information

• Website https://www.laborejo.org
• Documentation and Manual https://www.laborejo.org/documentation/patroneo

Installation and Starting

Download

If the latest release is not available through your package manger you can build it yourself: Download the latest code release on https://www.laborejo.org/downloads and extract it.

Dependencies

• Glibc
• Python 3.6 (maybe earlier)
• PyQt5 for Python 3

Build Dependencies

• Bash
• Nuitka >= 0.6 (maybe earlier)
• GCC (development is done on 8.2, but most likely you can use a much earlier version)

Environment:

• Jack Audio Connection Kit must be running

Build

The default prefix is /usr/local

• ./configure --prefix=/usr
• make
• sudo make install

Starting through the Non Session Manager after installation (recommended)

Starting Patroneo through the Non Session Manager after you installed patroneo system-wide is the recommended and only supported way. Start non-session-manager and load or create a new session. Then use the button "Add Client to Session" and type in patroneo. It should appear with an icon in the list and open its GUI.

Starting through NSM without building / installation

Starting Patroneo through the Non Session Manager is possible without building or installation. So you don't need to call the steps avobe (configure, make, make install)

The developer uses this way to develop the software, so it will always be stable and supported. But it is a bit less performant than building and installing it.

After extracting the release archive create a symlink from patroneo into your PATH. e.g. /usr/bin or ~/bin, if that exists on your system.

This mode needs calfbox to be installed systemwide. Please consult https://github.com/kfoltman/calfbox

Starting without Non Session Manager

This is not yet implemented!

You need to start patroneo from a terminal (or create a starter script).

patroneo --save DIRECTORY

Uses the given directory to save. The dir will be created or loaded from if already present. Use the applications file menu to save (Ctrl+s).

You can use this to load and save the files from an existing NSM session. If you create a new directory you can copy it manually to an NSM session directory, but that requires renaming the directory to append the unique ID provided by NSM.

Closing through your window manager in this mode will actually quit the application without a prompt to save changes.