Russell Hanaghan wrote: Are you using Sonar? What does your Cakewalk have that RG does not? What are you missing?

Janina Sajka wrote: Ardour does use GTK+ (1.2). Rosegarden is in Qt/KDE world... -- Brett

Brett McCoy writes: Yes. Accessibility support is builtin for Gnome 2 via GTK+. It is coming in QT 4 as well. -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina(a)freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040

Brad Fuller wrote: Hmmm, I'm gald u asked... :) I use Sonar as a sequencer to run midi files (Mixed, edited if needed and saved to Sonar format) to back me doing vocals and guitar. Sorta like Karaoke on steroids rather than Milli Vanilli :) So when live, I need to load a file and play...no time for messing around...1 sec = 1 millenium on stage as you all know... I use soft synths only. Usually, Roland Virtual sound canvas or Edirol Hypercanvas. I have been running the later as a Vst under jack_vst (Have not had time to mess with DSSI) and used both Muse and RG. Rose garden never seems to get the instrument selection right(?) I don't have time onstage to mess around with Ch 1 = voc...Ch 2 = guit...channel 3 = drums....etc. I think it expects that even though drums would be midi channel 10, they are not always track 10(??) so it does not allocate drums automagically. Sonar...and even Muse...I load the file and the right instruments are loaded or allocated to the right track. RG has no play list feature...Neither does Muse. This would be a good feature for request? The mixer in RG and Muse are prone to causing crackling when operated in RT. This maybe a kernel issue. I use 2.6.7 with Relatime-lsm and run as a user. The track visual is ok...but a bit bland (Now I'm just getting nit picky) but a little more detail would be good. I use thos as visual ques in live settings. Vertical resizing of individual tracks? Those are the main items...I thank you for asking. Both RG and Muse are very promising. And now Wired...we shall see. IF one could integrate an internal midi wave based GS or GM2 128 voice softsynth...that would be awesome. Yes, I know we have fluid synth...and Qsynth if not using the internal fluidsynth in RG...but sound fonts are a pain! Roland / Edirol seems to be able to get killer wave based instrument sounds squeezed into 8 and 14 MB....The nearest sounding reasonable soundfont set I have is 26MB. The SBlive sf2 file from my Live5.1 is only 4mb...I have not been able to track down the 8mb file...but they dont sound that good stacked next to HyperCanvas. Nor is there there any instrument tonal control available... There are other ways to accomplish this in Linux but it requires running several apps at minimum. This creates more risk in terms of crashes and more fiddling! In my home studio I have the time to mess with all this...on stage...no way. It would be nice to have a radio button to select internal GM / GS softsynth I run Sonar on Win XP on a Dell CPxj 650. It has never crashed or held me up in the 5 years I have been using it. I still run 2.1 though. 3.0 has funky feel to it in GUI and not too mention its bloody expensive! :) I use a Linux box to run fx on the PA and accoustic guitar; I would love nothing more than to leave the Windows machine at home...or if I use it it is only as a display out of sheer convenience and not necessity! I get a lot of curiosity generated over my live setup and folks ask a lot of questions about it. Again, to the Muse & RG devs...you both have come much distance!!! I can sync both to Ardour and have it all....but for the live thing and softsynth stuff...It's not quite ready for prime time; at least not for me. Cheers, R~

tim hall wrote: Let me rephrase that... One that does what I need. For thos not familiar withe the SOnar playlist; It has a feature that after inserting your songs of choice, you can delay the play of the next song in either time or "Wait for key press". The later is very suitable to live work. Song just waiting to go....blah blah blah on mic to audience....reach down and hit space bar....boom! R~