27 Jan
2004
27 Jan
'04
4:35 p.m.
Hi
I am new to Linux and new to this list - a friend of mine set it up last WE
cause i was fed up with Windows and its capitalist way of working. I have
Debian 2.4.22 i think (i know it's 2.4 something). It got installed using
Knoppix then it got upgraded. We tried to upgrade it to 2.6 but some things
were obviously wrong in the set up as it doesn't boot properly (probably
something wrong with the graphic settings cause the screen goes all black).
So i boot to 2.4.
I have a Terratec DMX 6 Fire soundcard and Rosegarden 4 and Audacity but my
problem is i don't seem to be able to record anything. I plugged in my 4
tracks portastudio into the line input as i used to do and i can hear it on
my monitors but i can't record anything in Audacity. I have tried to play
around with the various things in the alsamixer, setting everything to
Capture and all the levels up and so on, but to no avail.
Has anyone got any idea why i can't record?
I also have a question about Rosegarden4. I have a Evolution MIDI keyboard
controller, it's a USB device - i don't seem to get any MIDI date in when
it's plugged via the USB port but i get MIDI data in when i plug it into the
front MIDI input on my soundcard, which is OK for now (i will look into this
USB thing when i upgrade to 2.6 properly i guess). However, i cannot hear
anything - i have set things to "Midi device 1 channel 1" for example and
then selected a bank and a sound - i know the MIDI data gets in as i can see
the small U-meter near the track number go up and down but can't hear
anything. When i go to the set up, it says somewhere "MIDI OK, no audio" -
what does it mean and is it a problem?
I was used to a few programs under Windows but i am not a master in any of
them under Windows and i am totally new to the Linux environment so i'm not
sure whether it is connected to something wrong in my set up or me not
understanding how the software actually works...
Any help would be very much appreciated, especially with the audacity
recording issue as i've done some recordings with a friend and we want to mix
them now but we are stuck because of this issue!
Cheers
Rachel
--
APP (HLMHB) - electronica indie pop
www.appband.com fpr mp3s & more info
27 Jan
27 Jan
10:22 p.m.
Rachel,
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 9:31 pm, RachelAPP wrote:
Hi
I am new to Linux and new to this list - a friend of mine set it up last WE
cause i was fed up with Windows and its capitalist way of working. I have
Debian 2.4.22 i think (i know it's 2.4 something). It got installed using
Knoppix then it got upgraded. We tried to upgrade it to 2.6 but some things
were obviously wrong in the set up as it doesn't boot properly (probably
something wrong with the graphic settings cause the screen goes all black).
So i boot to 2.4.
You're best off sticking with the 2.4.22 kernel for many reasons. That's the
version number for the Linux kernel rather than the Debian version (3.1 -
aka 'Sarge' I'd guess)
I have a Terratec DMX 6 Fire soundcard and Rosegarden
4 and Audacity but my
problem is i don't seem to be able to record anything. I plugged in my 4
tracks portastudio into the line input as i used to do and i can hear it on
my monitors but i can't record anything in Audacity. I have tried to play
around with the various things in the alsamixer, setting everything to
Capture and all the levels up and so on, but to no avail.
Has anyone got any idea why i can't record?
No, it sounds like your soundcard is more-or-less configured. It would help if
you could generate some useful error messages, Audacity's not the best for
that. You should only have to have capture enabled on the line-in bit of the
mixer and have 'line' selected as input on Audacity. If not you have reason
to suspect your sound set-up. Are you using ALSA?
I also have a question about Rosegarden4. I have a
Evolution MIDI keyboard
controller, it's a USB device - i don't seem to get any MIDI date in when
it's plugged via the USB port but i get MIDI data in when i plug it into
the front MIDI input on my soundcard, which is OK for now (i will look into
this USB thing when i upgrade to 2.6 properly i guess). However, i cannot
hear anything - i have set things to "Midi device 1 channel 1" for example
and then selected a bank and a sound - i know the MIDI data gets in as i
can see the small U-meter near the track number go up and down but can't
hear anything. When i go to the set up, it says somewhere "MIDI OK, no
audio" - what does it mean and is it a problem?
Rosegarden4 doesn't actually make any sound all on its own AFAIK, you have to
connect it up to a softsynth using Jackd. I use MusE generally, It's much
quicker to get working with and has softsynths 'built in' - so to speak.
Sounds like MIDI is configured ok.
I was used to a few programs under Windows but i am
not a master in any of
them under Windows and i am totally new to the Linux environment so i'm not
sure whether it is connected to something wrong in my set up or me not
understanding how the software actually works...
Could easily be a bit of both ... If you have a full Debian system installed
you'll probably already havea fair amount of documentation on your hard
drive. Reading is good :-) Collecting useful looking error messages is also
good practice.
Any help would be very much appreciated, especially
with the audacity
recording issue as i've done some recordings with a friend and we want to
mix them now but we are stuck because of this issue!
There are a multiplicity of different ways this can be achieved. Snd & Sweep
do much the same thing and it's also worth getting familiar with command-line
tools: typing:
arecord whatever.wav
aplay whatever.wav
into an xterm is probably the most basic way of achieving the object.
If that doesn't work you have set-up problems.
HTH
tim hall
29 Jan
29 Jan
5:29 p.m.
Thanks for your help Tim, i've sorted things out with arecord (after
installing the envy24control mixer instead of using alsamixer or amixer or
even alsamixergui, it's a lot easier to understand what is going on with it!)
and i am currently installing MusE... Looks like i have to record 4 channels
to get the line in (channel 3 & 4) but then i can open the file in Audacity
and get rid of channels 1 & 2 and copy and paste my channels 3 & 4 onto a
stereo track so that's enough for me now. My mic in is channel 5 & 6 so i
have to record 6 channels for it - haven't found a way to only record
channels 3 & 4 for example but it doesn't matter much right now, as long as i
know what goes where and i can get rid of what i don't want, i'm happy with
that...
Thanks for clearing things up about Rosegarden4 - i guess connecting the midi
track to a soft synth via Jack is the same as loading a VST isntrument for
that track in Cubase. It's just that doing it with jack isn't obvious when
you don't know your way around yet! The layout of Rosegarden4 also led me to
believe you could play some MIDI tracks using the GM library...
I'm fine now and i can get on with my music making - i'm sure i will have more
questions soon though hehe
Yeah i'm reading some doc on my system ands ome ebook about Linux and i'm
slowly getting used to using the shell to do most of the tasks - i guess i
was just impatient about getting on with the music side of things as this is
quite important for me...
Cheers
Rachel
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 4:20 am, you wrote:
Rachel,
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 9:31 pm, RachelAPP wrote:
--
APP (HLMHB) - electronica indie pop
www.appband.com fpr mp3s & more info
Hi
I am new to Linux and new to this list - a friend of mine set it up last
WE cause i was fed up with Windows and its capitalist way of working. I
have Debian 2.4.22 i think (i know it's 2.4 something). It got installed
using Knoppix then it got upgraded. We tried to upgrade it to 2.6 but
some things were obviously wrong in the set up as it doesn't boot
properly (probably something wrong with the graphic settings cause the
screen goes all black). So i boot to 2.4.
You're best off sticking with the 2.4.22 kernel for many reasons. That's
the version number for the Linux kernel rather than the Debian version
(3.1 - aka 'Sarge' I'd guess)
I have a Terratec DMX 6 Fire soundcard and
Rosegarden 4 and Audacity but
my problem is i don't seem to be able to record anything. I plugged in my
4 tracks portastudio into the line input as i used to do and i can hear
it on my monitors but i can't record anything in Audacity. I have tried
to play around with the various things in the alsamixer, setting
everything to Capture and all the levels up and so on, but to no avail.
Has anyone got any idea why i can't record?
No, it sounds like your soundcard is more-or-less configured. It would help
if you could generate some useful error messages, Audacity's not the best
for that. You should only have to have capture enabled on the line-in bit
of the mixer and have 'line' selected as input on Audacity. If not you have
reason to suspect your sound set-up. Are you using ALSA?
I also have a question about Rosegarden4. I have
a Evolution MIDI
keyboard controller, it's a USB device - i don't seem to get any MIDI
date in when it's plugged via the USB port but i get MIDI data in when i
plug it into the front MIDI input on my soundcard, which is OK for now (i
will look into this USB thing when i upgrade to 2.6 properly i guess).
However, i cannot hear anything - i have set things to "Midi device 1
channel 1" for example and then selected a bank and a sound - i know the
MIDI data gets in as i can see the small U-meter near the track number go
up and down but can't hear anything. When i go to the set up, it says
somewhere "MIDI OK, no audio" - what does it mean and is it a problem?
Rosegarden4 doesn't actually make any sound all on its own AFAIK, you have
to connect it up to a softsynth using Jackd. I use MusE generally, It's
much quicker to get working with and has softsynths 'built in' - so to
speak. Sounds like MIDI is configured ok.
I was used to a few programs under Windows but i
am not a master in any
of them under Windows and i am totally new to the Linux environment so
i'm not sure whether it is connected to something wrong in my set up or
me not understanding how the software actually works...
Could easily be a bit of both ... If you have a full Debian system
installed you'll probably already havea fair amount of documentation on
your hard drive. Reading is good :-) Collecting useful looking error
messages is also good practice.
Any help would be very much appreciated,
especially with the audacity
recording issue as i've done some recordings with a friend and we want to
mix them now but we are stuck because of this issue!
There are a multiplicity of different ways this can be achieved. Snd &
Sweep do much the same thing and it's also worth getting familiar with
command-line tools: typing:
arecord whatever.wav
aplay whatever.wav
into an xterm is probably the most basic way of achieving the object.
If that doesn't work you have set-up problems.
HTH
tim hall
10:48 p.m.
Rachel,
On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:25 pm, RachelAPP wrote:
Thanks for clearing things up about Rosegarden4 - i
guess connecting the
midi track to a soft synth via Jack is the same as loading a VST isntrument
for that track in Cubase. It's just that doing it with jack isn't obvious
when you don't know your way around yet! The layout of Rosegarden4 also led
me to believe you could play some MIDI tracks using the GM library...
TBH I haven't used Cubase or really got to grips with Rosegarden4 either, you
may well be right *shrugs*. I've only been using Debian for just over a year
having migrated completely from Windows (and I can't imagine going back to it
now :-) I've only just scratched the surface of what's possible in that time,
but I've learned a hell of a lot about how my computer works.
I'm fine now and i can get on with my music making
- i'm sure i will have
more questions soon though hehe
you will.
Yeah i'm reading some doc on my system ands ome
ebook about Linux and i'm
slowly getting used to using the shell to do most of the tasks - i guess i
was just impatient about getting on with the music side of things as this
is quite important for me...
Understood. The command line is really worth the effort, not only from the POV
of speed, but also because of the useful diagnostic info you get if an
application doesn't want to play (especially if you call it with the
--verbose option, or whatever)
When you're done reading all that, you might find
http://www.agnula.org/
a useful resource ;-)
Have Fun Making Music!
tim hall
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