11 Nov
2019
11 Nov
'19
12:47 a.m.
On November 10, 2019 10:26:22 AM HST, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi John,
On 10/11/19 18:00, John Whitmore wrote:
I have Rosegarden making sounds just fine on Debian Testing and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I added
the KXStudio repositories to both. I use Cadence for managing JACK and audio connections.
I used QJackQTL for a long while but Cadence is more powerful and seems to incorporate
PulseAudio better.
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.
[...]
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 :)
Yes, FluidR3 soundfont with fluidsynth is good.
I usully use a fluidsynth DSSI plugin with Rosegarden. Makes things easier for me.
I also have an external Yamaha keyboard set up and connected all the time. It's part
of my Rosegarden default studio so I forget it's there. So sometimes I'll start
composing something in RG and hit Play, then go, "Where's that coming from?"
then go, "Oh, yeah."
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