9 Jan
2004
9 Jan
'04
6:46 a.m.
From Chris Cannam on Friday, 2004-01-09 at 10:36:28
+0000:
On Friday 09 Jan 2004 10:03 am, Conrad Newton wrote:
<snip>
Thank you for your very careful clarification of all the issues
surrounding the use of rosegarden. I will go back and have a
second look at this program.
Conrad
From Chris Cannam on Friday, 2004-01-09 at
09:06:19 +0000:
If you only want to use Rosegarden to edit MIDI and score and to play
to and record from MIDI devices, whether they're soundcard synths,
hardware such as keyboards, or soft-synths, then you don't need to
compile with JACK or run jackd. MIDI and score support in Rosegarden
are stronger than audio support at the moment anyway, so this might
not be too much of a loss. So, for example, you will be able to
import MIDI files, edit them as score, record additional tracks from
a MIDI keyboard, arrange and play the results through a separate
qsynth or a soundcard synth, drive other MIDI applications such as
Hydrogen, etc; you just won't be able to record the results as audio
back into Rosegarden, or add audio samples to your composition.
Rosegarden does need JACK for audio, yes. If you
only want MIDI
and notation -- and when I say MIDI I include the ability to
drive ALSA soft synths such as Timidity, qsynth or Fluidsynth --
then you can build it happily without JACK or run a JACK-built
version without running jackd.
I'm not sure that I understand this comment, although it sounds
quite interesting. Are you saying that I should rebuild the
program without JACK? Or that via a softsynth I can use the
program anyway, without running jackd?