10 Nov
2019
10 Nov
'19
10:26 p.m.
Hi John,
On 10/11/19 18:00, John Whitmore wrote:
Hello all,
First post so obviously a newbie question. And this, I know, is a question
without answer, as it's a bit subjective. So what is the most convinient
distro to get started on.
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I've previosuly been using an Ubuntu distro which worked up to a point, that
point being 'rosegarden'. I really wanted to play with rosegarden so I could
enter musical notation and list to the results. That was a step too far for
me.
As you say this is really subjective, but I'm quite happy since a while
with Manjaro which is an Arch spin-off. Audio-wise it has realtime
kernel packaged out of the box as well as most common audio applications.
Final thought, although not distro related, for your use case I'd grab a
'gernal midi' soundfont (for instance the FluidR3_GM one - also packaged
as 'soundfont-fluid' - and connect rosegarden to it vie either
fluidsynth (command line), or qsynth (fluiidsynth frontend), or one of
the fluidsynth plugins.
For example if I need to quickly sketch something (and am not too bother
by quality). I fire up qjacktrl, start rosegarden and then have a script
ready like this:
fluidsynth -j -l /path/to/FluidR3_GM.sf2 -o synth.polyphony=512
Of course this could be even further automated with a script launching,
jack, then rosegarden, then fluidsynth :)
Hope this helps,
Lorenzo.