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On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 07:59, Patrick Shirkey wrote: The top of Tim's points to yours now. I hadn't looked at this in a while as I wasn't able to get the VST Server working correctly early on. Now that I see this much functionality I'll have to give it another try. quite impressive! - Mark

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:21:04AM -0500, David Evans wrote: Hydrogen should produce sound as soon as you click on the play buttons in the mixer window. To use it with MIDI, you don't need the virtual device. Hydrogen, like other ALSA-enabled MIDI applications, creates it's own virtual MIDI port (use 'aconnect -lo' to see it). In order to send MIDI to Hydrogen, you need to connect this port to some input port (use 'aconnect -li' to see which ones are available). You can use aconnect or similar tools to make these connections. Sequencer applications like muse and rosegarden can also do this. cheers, Christian Henz

qjackctl *and* qjackconnect both come with SuSE 9.0... If you don't see them in the kmenus (or if they don't launch from a shell)... Go to --> Control Center --> YaST2 modules --> Software --> Install and Remove Software... If you do a simple search in that window consisting of "qjack", then both of the (above mentioned) programs will show up. Make sure you "check" the "Autocheck" option (at bottom of YaST2 screen) so that all the dependencies are also installed (other nessesary progams). These programs will make you're world much easier. The thing I like about front ends like these, is they let you learn about how everything fits to together... Not to mention how they make it possible to get down to the business of making music. You'll find that a lot of the apps that come with SuSE are a bit outdated. But they are great if you are new and just want to do *something* right now. The learning curve for linux/audio is pretty steep. It's just nice to do *something* other than research once in a while (hehe). Rocco

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:47:30PM -0500, David Evans wrote: I'd guess BlockSize parameter sets the size of the buffer. You can change that in the Preferences dialog. Maybe the error message is misleading and the audio device is blocked by some other sound application (KDE's artsd?) You could check out XMMS's settings (click on the little 'O' for the menu), see what output it uses. My guess is it uses arts or ALSA, see if it works with OSS. If it uses arts, you'd probably have to stop artsd. (You can disable it in KDE control center.) Eventually you wanna give jack a try. As mentioned before qjackctl is the way to go. It can also stop artsd automatically. cheers, Christian

dsevans(a)berndtgroup.net wrote: Dave, As mentioned prior, you may want to turn off the aRts server. From what I understand, it's a sound server that compensates up for any sound card that doesn't allow 2 sounds to be played at the same time. aRts is probly not nessesay. Yet... it could (possibly) introduce latency (and who knows what else). With SuSE/KDE, it's running by default. To disable it, go to... --> Control Center --> Sound & Multimedia --> Sound System --> (un)check the option "Start aRts sound server on KDE startup" If you really want to be safe, reboot to make sure it's off. Hydrogen is very nice, but I had certain issues with it, so I went with a much "cleaner" situation. If I'm not mistaken, I don't think that the version of Hydrogen that comes with SuSE 9.0 allows for any "real time" inputting of notes. I think you only have the option of inputting notes with a mouse. If I'm wrong, then please correct me. But if not, then you have to connect it up to another midi program. This is (not) uncommon practice in the linux/audio world to use programs together like this. It just seems too "kludgy" to hook a "full-blown" program up to another "full-blown" program like this. So what I did was to install "simsam"... Home Page... http://simsam.sourceforge.net/ It allows you to load sound samples and assign them to any key(s) on your midi keyboard. It's much less "kludgy" than using a full blown program like Hydrogen. And unlike (some) programs, you don't have to do anything special to get it to show up in the "kaconnect" window. Just type "simsam" in a shell... start kaconnect and hook it up to a midi sequencer program or your midi keyboard or whatever... Here's the irony... if you want some great sounding sound samples, find the directory were Hydrogen keeps it's sound samples ("drum kits" are *one* compressed file full of samples). You can right click on them in KDE and choose the "extract here" option. From what I remember, that creates a file that needs to (also) be extracted. And I believe that leaves a folder of drum samples at that location. Have fun... Rocco