[LAU] looking for a midi recording softsynth

[andy baxter]

On 10/12/10 10:25, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello Andy!
>   What kind of sound are you looking for in general? More of an 
> analogue synth sound, a real piano or what?
>   In general you can record a piece with rosegarden or any other of 
> the big MIDI sequencers. They would record knob and slider movements 
> from a MIDI keyboard, while it is played. You might also record some 
> controller movements in a seperate track and use them to control some 
> kind of effect plugin, so this would be in the audio domain, in the 
> sense, that the effect (filter or whateve) is an audio plugin and not 
> part of the MIDI synth you use to generate the sound.
>   For good pianos you might use LinuxSampler with one of the free 
> grandpianos (or a bought one). I think LinuxSampler also has a simple 
> filter. For some of the basic "effects" like filter, volume and 
> portamento there are standard controls. I think even for a simple 
> volume ADSR, but I'm not sure LinuxSampler reacts to them.
>   If you want to go synth, then the field is big. You have some DSSI 
> plugins, you have Bristol, which is nice, because you can attach a 
> certain controller on your keyboard to a certain parameter of the 
> synth. There's Yoshimi which is a purely waveform based synth. It 
> specialises in lovely pads, choirs and the like.
>   I think if your MIDI controls, used during the original performance, 
> don't correspond to the MIDI controls needed for your final synth 
> tweaking, you might be able to map them in a good MIDI sequencer or 
> using some kind of MIDI filter/mapper.
>   You really should be able to find the software you need on Linux. It 
> only depends on what you need exactly.
>   Kind regards
>               Julien

Hi julien,

Thanks for the advice.

I was thinking of a synthy sound, where the sound is generated from 
oscillators and filters, rather than a wavetable based synth.

andy