13 Feb
2005
13 Feb
'05
11:04 a.m.
tim hall wrote:
>Second, the "midi connection manager" is
not working as described. I
>can create new devices in both play and record but I cannot connect them
>to the soundcard connection to my keyboard. The choice is in the
>dropdown, but when I click on it the "No Connection" item remains selected.
Rosegarden doesn't actually contain any
instruments as such. If your version
is compiled with DSSI support, you will be able to use synth plugins. Else
you need to connect to a softsynth via JACK. I generally launch QJackCtl and
QSynth (fluidsynth gui) and then Rosegarden.
I've had this same problem with every version of Rosegarden
I've tried for the last year. I've got an SBlive so I load
up 8mbgmsfx.sf2 with asfxload then start rosegarden, import
a mid file and then goto Composition->Studio->Manage MIDI
Devices, click New and the drop down to the left shows a
variety of ALSA ports so I select "65:0 Emu10K1 Port 0 (write)"
and the dropdown always goes back to "No connection"...
no matter what variation I try.
pmidi -p 65:0 some.mid works. muse(seq) works with this
combo and also with timidity -iA.
Just now I loaded up qjackctl and qsynth with the same sf2
and indeed rosegarden shows "129:0 Synth input port (32135:0)"
but the dropdown always reverts to "No connection".
I hope I'm doing something really dumb but I've tried at
least a dozen times over the last 12 months with various
versions of rosegarden, kernels and alsa and everything else
looks like it will work except I can't select any instruments.
The only thing is I am running an AMD64 box... but like I say,
most other software that I have tried does work.
--markc