[LAU] midi file editing

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Mar 14 18:50:55 UTC 2012


On 03/14/2012 04:48 AM, Renato wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:12:12 +0530
> Rustom Mody<rustompmody at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Renato<rennabh at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:11:17 +0530
>>> Rustom Mody<rustompmody at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> [I am asking this after wrestling with rosegarden for an hour or
>>>> so and getting no sound]
>>>
>>> Hi, sorry if this is obvious to you, but just in case, you'd
>>> probably need a soundfont (like fluidr3) and a soundfont player
>>> (like qsynth) to have sound - maybe rosegarden has a built-in
>>> soundfont player? Anyway you should be able to make it output the
>>> midi of the track to qsynth (using qjackctl), and therefore have
>>> sound.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> renato
>>>
>>
>> HI Renato
>> Nothing's very obvious to me and all help is much appreciated!
>>
>> I start qjackctl and qsynth and rosegarden (in that order?)
>> I have soundfonts loaded into qsynth as well as rosegarden (dunno
>> which is correct)
>> I would expect to be able to connect rosegarden out to qsynth in.
>> Cant seem to do that because: audio tab of qjackctl only has qsynth
>> on left (readable/output) but not on right so cannot wire rosegarden
>> into qsynth
>
> yep, those are the audio ports - BTW, in those you have to make sure
> qsynth is connected to "system out", in order to hear the sounds
> qsynth will produce. For making midi connections, you have to go in the
> "Alsa" tab in qjackctl, and there you should have rosegarden in the
> left and qsynth in the right pane.

My experience with Rosegarden 11.11.42 is that it automatically connects 
to synths like qsynth. The only time I've had to connect anything to 
qsynth manually is if I want to connect my keyboard to qsynth rather 
than going through RG.

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