29 Jan
2004
29 Jan
'04
6:29 p.m.
Thanks for your help Tim, i've sorted things out with arecord (after
installing the envy24control mixer instead of using alsamixer or amixer or
even alsamixergui, it's a lot easier to understand what is going on with it!)
and i am currently installing MusE... Looks like i have to record 4 channels
to get the line in (channel 3 & 4) but then i can open the file in Audacity
and get rid of channels 1 & 2 and copy and paste my channels 3 & 4 onto a
stereo track so that's enough for me now. My mic in is channel 5 & 6 so i
have to record 6 channels for it - haven't found a way to only record
channels 3 & 4 for example but it doesn't matter much right now, as long as i
know what goes where and i can get rid of what i don't want, i'm happy with
that...
Thanks for clearing things up about Rosegarden4 - i guess connecting the midi
track to a soft synth via Jack is the same as loading a VST isntrument for
that track in Cubase. It's just that doing it with jack isn't obvious when
you don't know your way around yet! The layout of Rosegarden4 also led me to
believe you could play some MIDI tracks using the GM library...
I'm fine now and i can get on with my music making - i'm sure i will have more
questions soon though hehe
Yeah i'm reading some doc on my system ands ome ebook about Linux and i'm
slowly getting used to using the shell to do most of the tasks - i guess i
was just impatient about getting on with the music side of things as this is
quite important for me...
Cheers
Rachel
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 4:20 am, you wrote:
Rachel,
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 9:31 pm, RachelAPP wrote:
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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