Re: [linux-audio-user] The missing link

Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote: it sounds great. I just want to learn a bunch of basic programs first (sequencers, multitrackers, alsa...) to see what they all offer. Then I'll tackle jack. So far I'm discovering some pretty powerful tools. I don't like to sorta/kind know a program and I think jack will divert me from the time I'm putting into really get to know some basic programs first. I've just so bogged down with trying to understand most of the program's docs that I'm just not prepared to learn jack right now. I was learning Rosegarden (according to the installer notes it's version 2.1pl3-257) but it kept crashing. Even if it was stable, it's not very (musically) intuitive. The only way to edit notes is by numbers. It just didn't seem to have anything special about it. Expecially compared to jazz's graphical editing and live "real" insturment recording capabilities. And I'm still reading the Doc on jazz. I probly have an old version of Rosegarden (although I have the latest SuSE). Some of the things I've heard about newer versions of Rosegarden sounds promising. But with all the energy that goes into really getting to know the details of all these programs, I just don't want to deal with (possible) compiling problems. SuSE's put together a good set of diverse music programs that work immediatly apon installing them. I'm going to wait till I have the time to work out possible compiling problems that come with getting the newer versions. I just tried out muse today. It looks very promising. But this is what I encontered. I would appreciate if you could offer any information on how to solve this. I loaded a midi file that plays on every midi player/sequencer I've used. And I also did the "quick start" But I couldn't get any sound out of it and it didn't seem to input any notes from my midi keyboard. I have kaconnect set like this: External MIDI 0 ---> Emu10K1 Wave Table ---> Muse Sequencer Muse Sequencer ---> Emu10K Wave Table I was unable to load any instruments in the track info window. It just shows ---> ??? I tried all the different "Song Types". I'm too new at this to know what "NO" "GM" "GS" and "XG" are so I tried each one and it didn't seem to have any affect. I'm looking forward to trying out Muse. Any help would be appreciated... Rocco __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/