----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob van der Poel" <bob(a)mellowood.ca>
To: "Stephen Doonan" <stephen.doonan(a)gmail.com>
Cc: "A list for linux audio users"
<linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [LAU] MIDI players
That's why I didn't mention Qtractor:
because Bob wants as simple a
program as possible and mentioned RoseGarden as overkill.
However, my suggestion (timidity) won't suit his needs either perhaps,
because there may be no way in timidity to send the MIDI data itself to
an external tone-generator or synth instead of converting the MIDI data
into WAV audio. Sorry, Bob. :-)
Yeah, timidity doesn't support "real" synths. Qtractor, I don't know
about ... but, probably overkill.
Again, the kmid program would be just fine if it didn't distort to the
external synth. Anyone happen to have any ideas about why it might be
doing that?
--
My Debian distribution, for the most part, works pretty well and MMA also is
good.
When playing a midi file, I use Hydrogen for drums, and one or more of the
synthesizers : ZynAddSubbFx, Qsynth, and others. Specific midi connections
are made using aconnectgui, and Rosegarden drives it all. This all works
well for me. I can record the results using Audacity, and even play keyboard
along with
it using a UX15 Yamaha USB keyboard connector.
It's not very simple, but I wouldn't go back. Actually I'm working on a
wxpython script that should make it a lot easier to operate.