Grammostola Rosea wrote: re. qsynth, look into the channels window and assign whatever channel to that instrument. then, either in rosegarden or qtractor you'll have to assign that midi channel number to the midi sequence track and you're set. cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

Grammostola Rosea wrote: "load a soundfont"? Into Qsynth? Into your sound card memory? Somewhere else? "Play with rosegarden or qtractor and qsynth"? You mean record MIDI into rosegarden or qtractor and then send that MIDI data to qsynth to produce sounds? MIDI data can come from many places (a piano-like keyboard, electronic drum set, virtual MIDI keyboard in a computer, etc.). Those devices are typically set (by default or by the user) to send their MIDI data on one channel (of the 16 standard MIDI channels available), although it is usually also possible to transmit the same MIDI data on all 16 channels at the same time (although this is not often necessary or useful). To record the MIDI data in qtractor or rosegarden, it doesn't matter which channel the MIDI data is transmitted on. Just make sure that the MIDI recorder ("sequencer") is receiving that data and--during the recording process--is depositing that MIDI data onto a track. After the MIDI data is recorded, the MIDI channel it was received on becomes irrelevant. You can assign whatever MIDI channel you like to each track, so that the MIDI data of each track can be sent to qsynth or an external MIDI-triggered tone generator or wherever, through whichever MIDI channel you assign to each individual track of recorded MIDI data. You can set 2 or more tracks to transmit using the same MIDI channel, which means that both tracks are likely to trigger the same sound in the MIDI-triggered tone-generator like qsynth; or you can assign different MIDI channels (one channel per track) to each of the tracks, and if qsynth is set up to have a different sound on each of those channels, the MIDI data sent by each track will trigger a different sound. Just remember that a MIDI _input_ channel is important to know for recording purposes, but it does not have to match the MIDI _output_ channel (one channel can be used to receive and record the data, another channel to send and play it, for example), and that more than one track (all tracks, if you want) can be set to transmit on the same channel, or any track can be set to transmit on a separate, different channel (of the 16 standard MIDI channels). I hope that makes sense. :-) Steve