27 Mar
2024
27 Mar
'24
10:12 a.m.
Good evening!
I just ordered a StudioLogic SL88 MIDI controller. (Sorry, been playing
piano since age 3 and missed 88 keys!) I've been using a Yamaha PSR-225
for some sounds and entering notes. It has no controls such as
pitchbend, while the SL88 has three joysticks.
I mostly use Yoshimi, Qsynth, Aeolus, and Rosegarden. Occasionally other
softsynths. I'm running Debian Bookworm. I use Cadence to manage the
audio and other connections.
Any advice on how I can setup my studio conveniently? The one
convenience of having a keyboard that could make its own sounds was that
simply turning it on was enough. Something automatic would be nice.
Ideas? Thanks.
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27 Mar
27 Mar
12:37 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:12:35PM -1000, david wrote:
The one convenience of having a keyboard that could
make
its own sounds was that simply turning it on was enough.
Only if all you want to do is just play it. For anything else
(recording, mixing,...) it wouldn't matter much if the sound
is produced by hardware or software, you need some way to
connect things and manage those connections.
Probably the simplest way is to use a session manager such
as NSM. This supports the way things are traditionally done
in Linux audio, by making and changing Jack connections
depending on what you want to do.
There is another way (which I prefer) to organise a soft
studio, more similar to what can be done when using a big
hardware digital mixer.
This means that everything is permanently connected to the
mixer, and all those connections - both analog and digital,
are fixed.
In a software environment that means that Jack connections
are fixed and have to be set up only once, e.g. by a script.
Large digital mixers usually have no dedicated inputs and
outputs, any one of them can be routed to/from any part
of the mixer. It's this that allows physical connections
to be fixed - all routing is done just be reconfiguring
the mixer.
I don't know of any (publicly available) Linux mixer app
that allows this, but it would certainly be my preferred
way to do things.
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FA
3:18 p.m.
I have an SL88 here. But it's not connected to my main computer, instead it
has an Rpi 4 in a small case with a quality DAC installed and with a 10"
touch screen. The Rpi runs a custom version of Debian and currently only
has Pianoteq installed. A single 3-outlet power strip with a switch turns
on the Rpi, which in turns powers the SL88 and screen via USB, and the
monitors.
If I was using it with my main computer, there would be nothing to do. It
would just be on. Any software I would start would see it and could use it
for input. I have a much cheaper M-Audio 88 key controller there, and I
often leave pianoteq running on that computer so that i can always
"noodle". Depends a bit on the s/w ... pianoteq has an option to remember
which MIDI inputs to use, and defaults to "everything you've got".
Note that if the SL88 is connected via USB, then it is always "on".
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:12 AM david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Good evening!
I just ordered a StudioLogic SL88 MIDI controller. (Sorry, been playing
piano since age 3 and missed 88 keys!) I've been using a Yamaha PSR-225 for
some sounds and entering notes. It has no controls such as pitchbend, while
the SL88 has three joysticks.
I mostly use Yoshimi, Qsynth, Aeolus, and Rosegarden. Occasionally other
softsynths. I'm running Debian Bookworm. I use Cadence to manage the audio
and other connections.
Any advice on how I can setup my studio conveniently? The one convenience
of having a keyboard that could make its own sounds was that simply turning
it on was enough. Something automatic would be nice.
Ideas? Thanks.
--
David W. Jonesgnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, communityhttp://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
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10:35 p.m.
Thanks, Paul. What I meant by "on" was really the studio setup end of
it. Just my old habit of thinking "I have to turn the keyboard on to use
its sounds."
On 3/27/24 04:18, Paul Davis wrote:
I have an SL88 here. But it's not connected to my
main computer,
instead it has an Rpi 4 in a small case with a quality DAC installed
and with a 10" touch screen. The Rpi runs a custom version of Debian
and currently only has Pianoteq installed. A single 3-outlet power
strip with a switch turns on the Rpi, which in turns powers the SL88
and screen via USB, and the monitors.
If I was using it with my main computer, there would be nothing to do.
It would just be on. Any software I would start would see it and could
use it for input. I have a much cheaper M-Audio 88 key controller
there, and I often leave pianoteq running on that computer so that i
can always "noodle". Depends a bit on the s/w ... pianoteq has an
option to remember which MIDI inputs to use, and defaults to
"everything you've got".
Note that if the SL88 is connected via USB, then it is always "on".
On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:12 AM david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Good evening!
I just ordered a StudioLogic SL88 MIDI controller. (Sorry, been
playing piano since age 3 and missed 88 keys!) I've been using a
Yamaha PSR-225 for some sounds and entering notes. It has no
controls such as pitchbend, while the SL88 has three joysticks.
I mostly use Yoshimi, Qsynth, Aeolus, and Rosegarden. Occasionally
other softsynths. I'm running Debian Bookworm. I use Cadence to
manage the audio and other connections.
Any advice on how I can setup my studio conveniently? The one
convenience of having a keyboard that could make its own sounds
was that simply turning it on was enough. Something automatic
would be nice.
Ideas? Thanks.
--
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
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