[LAU] Looking for Resource Help with using Midi in a Church and School

[mowestusa]

David, Dave, and all others,

Thanks for helping to get me started in the world of midi. David thanks for the product suggestion and the info about horse power for driving a keyboard.

I was wondering if we could get started with something as simple as a keyboard with midi ports and an inexpensive USB adapter, and it looks like we can.

Dave thanks for the references, I think I have read all of your articles but I'm going to reread them, and the other sources you pointed to as well. Actually, good to hear from you. I had the privilege of meeting you at the University of Toledo when you came up to give advice on setting up a Hip/Hop studio on campus with the TALUG Linux users group. Now I'm in a new church with a new Linux audio need, so thanks for responding.

David, what distro are you using to run Rosegarden. I have a Fedora 8 install on that 1Ghz machine right now, but it seems as if Fedora does not pull in Rosegarden with the needed dependencies because they don't install Jack server which it needs.

Thanks to everyone who has encouraged this pursuit. It is nice having help readily available.

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| Steve                    |
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> --- On Thu, 8/14/08, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
> > Subject: Re: [LAU] Looking for Resource Help with
> using Midi in a Church and School
> > To: "linux-audio-user"
> <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
> > Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 3:31 PM
> > Dave Phillips wrote:
> > > mowestusa wrote:
> > >>  and we do have a Pentium 1Ghz with 512megs
> of
> > ram, would that be enough to get us started if we buy
> an
> > midi interface, and I have no idea which one?
> > >>   
> > > More memory would be good, and you can probably
> use
> > one of a MidiSport 
> > > or similar USB interface. Be sure to check here
> before
> > you spend your 
> > > money ! This list includes people who can tell
> you
> > whether your choice 
> > > is good or not, you would be wise to hear them.
> :)
> > 
> > Rosegarden works very well on my laptop (1.5GHz
> Pentium M
> > processor with 
> > the same effective performance as your 1GHz Pentium,
> 768MB
> > RAM). Drives 
> > my Yamaha keyboard through an E-MU Xmidi1x1 port (USB
> MIDI
> > port adapter).
> > 
> > No 100% CPU usage problems like some other poster on
> the
> > list mentioned. 
> > (I couldn't reply to that note because the
> poster's
> > mail client put his 
> > reply below something that my mail client considers
> the
> > start of a sig - 
> > so replying didn't include his reply in the note!)
> I
> > seem to recall that 
> > those problems are actually due to some problem with
> one of
> > the 
> > supporting graphics libraries of QT, but I don't
> know.
> > 
> > -- 
> > David
> > gnome at hawaii.rr.com
> > authenticity, honesty, community
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