Re: [LAU] Looking for Resource Help with using Midi in a Church and School - Linux-audio-user

15 Aug 2008

David, Dave, and all others,

Thanks for helping to get me started in the world of midi. David thanks for the product
suggestion and the info about horse power for driving a keyboard.

I was wondering if we could get started with something as simple as a keyboard with midi
ports and an inexpensive USB adapter, and it looks like we can.

Dave thanks for the references, I think I have read all of your articles but I'm going
to reread them, and the other sources you pointed to as well. Actually, good to hear from
you. I had the privilege of meeting you at the University of Toledo when you came up to
give advice on setting up a Hip/Hop studio on campus with the TALUG Linux users group. Now
I'm in a new church with a new Linux audio need, so thanks for responding.

David, what distro are you using to run Rosegarden. I have a Fedora 8 install on that 1Ghz
machine right now, but it seems as if Fedora does not pull in Rosegarden with the needed
dependencies because they don't install Jack server which it needs.

Thanks to everyone who has encouraged this pursuit. It is nice having help readily
available.

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| Steve                    |
| mowestusa(a)yahoo.com      |
| mowestusa.nixsyspaus.org |
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...
  --- On Thu, 8/14/08, david
&lt;gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com&gt;
 wrote:

  From: david &lt;gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com&gt;
 Subject: Re: [LAU] Looking for Resource Help with  using Midi in a Church and
School
  To: "linux-audio-user" 
&lt;linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org&gt;
  Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 3:31 PM
 Dave Phillips wrote:
 > mowestusa wrote:
 >>  and we do have a Pentium 1Ghz with 512megs  of
  ram, would that be enough to get us started if we
buy  an
  midi interface, and I have no idea which one?
 >>   
 > More memory would be good, and you can probably  use
  one of a MidiSport 
 > or similar USB interface. Be sure to check here  before
  you spend your 
 > money ! This list includes people who can tell  you
  whether your choice 
 > is good or not, you would be wise to hear them.  :)

 Rosegarden works very well on my laptop (1.5GHz  Pentium M
  processor with 
 the same effective performance as your 1GHz Pentium,  768MB
  RAM). Drives 
 my Yamaha keyboard through an E-MU Xmidi1x1 port (USB  MIDI
  port adapter).

 No 100% CPU usage problems like some other poster on  the
  list mentioned. 
 (I couldn't reply to that note because the  poster's
  mail client put his 
 reply below something that my mail client considers  the
  start of a sig - 
 so replying didn't include his reply in the note!)  I
  seem to recall that 
 those problems are actually due to some problem with  one of
  the 
 supporting graphics libraries of QT, but I don't  know.

 -- 
 David
 gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
 authenticity, honesty, community
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