27 Jan
2004
27 Jan
'04
11:22 p.m.
Rachel,
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 9:31 pm, RachelAPP wrote:
Hi
I am new to Linux and new to this list - a friend of mine set it up last WE
cause i was fed up with Windows and its capitalist way of working. I have
Debian 2.4.22 i think (i know it's 2.4 something). It got installed using
Knoppix then it got upgraded. We tried to upgrade it to 2.6 but some things
were obviously wrong in the set up as it doesn't boot properly (probably
something wrong with the graphic settings cause the screen goes all black).
So i boot to 2.4.
You're best off sticking with the 2.4.22 kernel for many reasons. That's the
version number for the Linux kernel rather than the Debian version (3.1 -
aka 'Sarge' I'd guess)
I have a Terratec DMX 6 Fire soundcard and Rosegarden
4 and Audacity but my
problem is i don't seem to be able to record anything. I plugged in my 4
tracks portastudio into the line input as i used to do and i can hear it on
my monitors but i can't record anything in Audacity. I have tried to play
around with the various things in the alsamixer, setting everything to
Capture and all the levels up and so on, but to no avail.
Has anyone got any idea why i can't record?
No, it sounds like your soundcard is more-or-less configured. It would help if
you could generate some useful error messages, Audacity's not the best for
that. You should only have to have capture enabled on the line-in bit of the
mixer and have 'line' selected as input on Audacity. If not you have reason
to suspect your sound set-up. Are you using ALSA?
I also have a question about Rosegarden4. I have a
Evolution MIDI keyboard
controller, it's a USB device - i don't seem to get any MIDI date in when
it's plugged via the USB port but i get MIDI data in when i plug it into
the front MIDI input on my soundcard, which is OK for now (i will look into
this USB thing when i upgrade to 2.6 properly i guess). However, i cannot
hear anything - i have set things to "Midi device 1 channel 1" for example
and then selected a bank and a sound - i know the MIDI data gets in as i
can see the small U-meter near the track number go up and down but can't
hear anything. When i go to the set up, it says somewhere "MIDI OK, no
audio" - what does it mean and is it a problem?
Rosegarden4 doesn't actually make any sound all on its own AFAIK, you have to
connect it up to a softsynth using Jackd. I use MusE generally, It's much
quicker to get working with and has softsynths 'built in' - so to speak.
Sounds like MIDI is configured ok.
I was used to a few programs under Windows but i am
not a master in any of
them under Windows and i am totally new to the Linux environment so i'm not
sure whether it is connected to something wrong in my set up or me not
understanding how the software actually works...
Could easily be a bit of both ... If you have a full Debian system installed
you'll probably already havea fair amount of documentation on your hard
drive. Reading is good :-) Collecting useful looking error messages is also
good practice.
Any help would be very much appreciated, especially
with the audacity
recording issue as i've done some recordings with a friend and we want to
mix them now but we are stuck because of this issue!
There are a multiplicity of different ways this can be achieved. Snd & Sweep
do much the same thing and it's also worth getting familiar with command-line
tools: typing:
arecord whatever.wav
aplay whatever.wav
into an xterm is probably the most basic way of achieving the object.
If that doesn't work you have set-up problems.
HTH
tim hall