Re: [LAU] which apps to choose for the job and how to set things up? - Linux-audio-user

20 Aug 2007

Thanks a lot, Julien, for your "tutorial". I have successfully set things up
and managed to get sound and all! Only problem is I have too much lag. I
think I would have to install the realtime kernel, and try my USB Audiophile
soundcard. I'm pretty worn out from these weeks of struggling though.
Yesterday I launched my Windows laptop and within two hours had completed
the MIDI to VST output process. That was so nice. I think I'll stick with it
and record the VSTI-ed output in wav files, then send them over to my Linux
pc for the audio recording and editing (which works very well without
problems). If I ever get a problem with my laptop I'll try my hand in
returning to a Linux VSTI set-up, but for now I'm exhausted, and I'd rather
cross the river if my current bridge ever fails. I hope the next Ardour
release will give an easier time to aspiring Linux musicians with specific
needs (I realize I was asking for something pretty specific. "standard"
audio and MIDI isn't that hard to get). Thankfully, the user community is
very supportive! :)

Cheers,
Dominic

On 8/20/07, Chuckk Hubbard &lt;badmuthahubbard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
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 On 8/19/07, Julien Claassen &lt;julien(a)c-lab.de&gt; wrote:

 Hi!
   I think you might try ardour. I know it can host and record
 VST-generated
 sounds. At least I believe so. Anyone can confrim?
   With your setup, it seems to me you might want to kick timidity++ out
 of
 your chain. Timidity plays sounds using its own sounds (GUS-patches or
 soundfonts), if not for me it had a great latency. I don't know exactly
 about
 freeST, but it might have it's own midi port. So in an xterm or on the
 console
 you may try:
 aconnect -li
 and
 aconnect -lo
   This will display all alsasequencer midi-ports currently in existence.
 You
 can also use some graphical patchbay to do the same. I think ghostess is
 a
 nice one, just search for "patchbay", you should get a list of them.
   Then connect your rosegarden midi-out (if it has one) to your freeVST
 in (if
 that has one) and connect your FreeVST jack_output to audacity. So take
 the 

 I'm also fond of the aconnect solution.  You aren't reliant on how the
 sequencer's developers decided to set things up.  Is there any loss of
 timing, anyone?  Although right now, Csound's ALSA midi output isn't working
 for me.
 I haven't been able to get Rosegarden to load Csound's csLADSPA, perhaps
 it doesn't use LADSPA_PATH to search for plugins.  It has its own plugin
 directory.  I know Rosegarden is pretty and a bit more developed, but Muse
 seems to be more useful sometimes.  Of course neither one has an interface
 like some of the commercial programs- yet- but I think it'll happen,
 gradually.

 I haven't used Ardour much, I understand it's pretty cool, but you could
 totally use Audacity for both steps 2 and 3.
 ALTHOUGH, I read that someone was commissioned to add MIDI sequencing to
 Ardour!  So maybe in another few months, Ardour could be the only program
 necessary for the whole process!  Future Linux composers will look back and
 say "How did they manage like that?"

 -Chuckk