Tek – a music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals

Summary

tek a music making program for 24-bit unicode terminals. written in rust with ratatui on crossterm for jack and pipewire. tek is available as source, statically linked binaries, and on the aur. author is reachable via mastodon @unspeaker@mastodon.social or matrix @unspeaker:matrix.org usage requirements: linux; jack or pipewire; 24-bit terminal (i use kitty) recommended: midi controller; samples in wav format; lv2 plugins. keymaps Arranger: Editor: Global: installation binary download you can download tek 0.2.0 "almost static" from codeberg releases. this standalone binary release, should work on any glibc-based system. from distro repositories arch linux tek 0.2.0-rc7 is available as a package in the AUR. you can install it using your preferred AUR helper (e.g. paru): paru -S tek building from source requires docker. git clone --recursive -b 0.2 https://codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek cd tek # enter directory cat bin/release-glibc.sh # preview build script sudo bin/release-glibc.sh # run build script sudo cp bin/tek /usr/local/bin/tek # install design goals inspired by trackers and hardware sequencers, but with the critical feature that 90s samplers lack: able to resample, i.e. record while playing! pop-up scratchpad for musical ideas. low resource consumption, can stay open in background. but flexible enough to allow expanding on compositions human- and machine- readable project format simple representation for project data enable scripting and remapping.