[linux-audio-user] The missing link

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Sat Jan 18 05:48:00 EST 2003


linuxmedia4 at netscape.net wrote:
> Greetings,
> 

I think you've encountered the reason for jack. Why not try using 
Rosegarden or Muse to play the sequences then you can interface directly 
to jack?

There is some work being done on allowing oss apps to connect to jack 
via a seperate daemon.

"the API's are different (bio2jack uses a native API, and libjackasyn
copies the OSS API)."

You could look into them too.


> I always give my best effort before bothering anyone on this list. I
> just can't find the missing peice.
> 
> Here's the situation:
> 
> I create sequence tracks in jazz. Then I record live tracks in
> ecasound while the midi file plays via timidiy. The problem is that
> jazz plays from the sound card and timidity can only play .pat files. I
> create a lush sounding recording in jazz and when I play it with
> timidity, it sounds weak. Appeartenly, ecasound only supports playing
> midi files via timidiy. And timidiy can't access the sounds on the sound
> card.
> 
> I've been looking all over for several solutions:
> 
> (1) A midi to wav converter that creates a wav that sounds like what I
> created in jazz (via the sound card). Then I can just play the wav in
> ecasound while I record my live tracks along with it. (Timidity will
> covert to wav, but it's the .pat sounds). I tried using vsound, but it
> fails with every midi player I've tried.
> 
> (2) I keep hearing about alsa "capturing" sound. I can't find any
> documentation on what and how it "captures". Can I press play in a midi 
> player and the sound can be recorded to wav? If so, how?
> 
> (3) Is there a program that converts .sf2 to .pat. If so, then when I
> play midi files with timidity, they will sound like what I created with
> jazz.
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> Rocco
> 
> 
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Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd.
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