Compiling Tony¶

Warning: Not all that easy

At the moment you need to compile three separate parts in order to have a working installation of Tony:

1. The Tony application itself
2. The pYIN Vamp plugin used for general pitch and note estimation
3. The CHP Vamp plugin used for detailed pitch analysis

The source code for the plugins is all included in the source package for Tony, in subdirectories called pyin and chp respectively, so you only need to download the one package. But after you've downloaded it, you need to compile and install the plugins separately from the main Tony application.

On Linux¶

Tony depends on a lot of additional packages, including Qt (either Qt4 or Qt5), the Vamp plugin SDK, Rubber Band, libsamplerate, libsndfile, libmad, libid3tag, Serd and Sord, liboggz, libfishsound, FFTW3, JACK, and PulseAudio. The configure script should test for these.

• Download the source code package from the download page, or check out the Mercurial repository.
• Run ./configure and (if that succeeds) run make.
• For each of the pyin and chp subdirectories:
  • cd to that directory
  • run make -f Makefile.linux64
  • if that succeeds, install the compiled plugin by copying *.so to the directory $HOME/vamp/ (create this directory first if it doesn't exist).

You should be able to run ./tony in the main Tony directory now.

On Windows¶

Compiling from the source package is very hard on Windows because it has so many library dependencies. But if you check out the source from "the Mercurial repository"/projects/tony/repository, most of the dependencies will be checked out for you as subrepositories. So I recommend doing that.

Development of Tony happens in the default branch, so if you want to be sure you have a stable version (without developer churn going on) you should update to the most recent tagged release in the repository.

To build, you will need the Qt5 SDK with Qt Creator IDE. When installing Qt5, make sure you have the MinGW compiler toolset selected (either as well as the Visual C++ one or instead of it).

• Start Qt Creator and open the project tony.pro from the main Tony directory.
• Configure the project to use Qt5 Desktop with MinGW, in release mode, and disable the Shadow Build option.
• Copy the file version.h.in to version.h and edit it to replace the text @PACKAGE_VERSION@ with the appropriate version (this part really shouldn't be necessary -- sorry!)