19 May
2010
19 May
'10
3:48 p.m.
Brett McCoy wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Joep L. Blom
<jlblom(a)neuroweave.nl> wrote:
What kind of audio device are you using? You can
always turn off
pulseaudio... I wouldn't expect audio performance to be stellar inside
a VM, especially if you are using any kinds of samples for playback.
Is it possible to have Finale send MIDI to Linux and have Linux do the
audio playback using something like Fluidsynth?
Alternatively, if you want an all Linux solution, use Lilypond for
your music notation! I moved away from GUI notation apps to Lilypond
and have never looked back.
-- Brett
Brett,
Thanks for the fast answer. I arrange (and write) the last 6 years with
Finale and am rather accomplished with it. I have tried (and still try)
Musescore, but that is still lacking features I need (but it is coming).
I am an arranger who want to hear what is written every say 4 bars or
more as I arrange as well for Big Band as for 2 piano's. I have looked
at Lilypond I think 8 years ago but I found it then too cumbersome and a
very steep learning curve.
The audio device I use is the built-in audio by NVIDIA (Device manager
says it is a HDA Nvidia sound card) Although I'm a semi-professional
jazz pianist (I'm retired) I don't care much for the audio from my
computer. If I want to listen I use my sound-system. Since I recently
can record with the Zoom R16 I burn it on rewritable CD's and if I want
to record permanently I write on DVD (as that is 24-bit).
You says that pulseaudio can be turned off? How? I thought it so deep -
at least in Ubuntu - in the system that than all sound stops.
O by the way, I have tried virtualbox instead of vmware but als the
sound was lousy and moreover it played the the finale files 4 times
slower than was original.
In vmware I have Finale running via MIDI but that doesn't make any
difference.
Maybe you or somebody else has some suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Joep