[linux-audio-user] Recommendations for audio software needed

[Conrad Newton]

>From Chris Cannam on Friday, 2004-01-09 at 09:06:19 +0000:
> On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:24 pm, Conrad Newton wrote:
> > I have not yet looked at muse, but I did briefly investigate
> > rosegarden4, and immediately tripped over the use of jack.
> 
> Rosegarden does need JACK for audio, yes.  If you only want MIDI and 
> notation -- and when I say MIDI I include the ability to drive ALSA 
> soft synths such as Timidity, qsynth or Fluidsynth -- then you can 
> build it happily without JACK or run a JACK-built version without 
> running jackd.

I'm not sure that I understand this comment, although it sounds
quite interesting.  Are you saying that I should rebuild the
program without JACK?  Or that via a softsynth I can use the
program anyway, without running jackd?  

What, if anything,  would I be missing out on by running the program 
in this way?

Conrad