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.
