On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Chris Share wrote: > My initial thoughts are: > > 1. MIDI Interface Check the ALSA soundcard matrix. Any card that has a MIDI interface and also is on the ALSA list will work. I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT and it works fine. > 2. Low Latency Kernel I believe the CCRMA distro takes care of this, no? > 4. Software: Rosegarden, Audacity, Ardour, etc. <opinion> Ardour does not work and play well with others. I don't keep up with CVS but the beta2 version I have isn't very flexable. Granted, it's a good DAW but it doesn't work with MIDI too well, so you can pretty much rule out using soft synths in any sort of sync. It's also supposed to send MTC for possible sync to other apps. I cannot get this to work at all, in fact, I can't get it to see my MIDI interface. Rosegarden's MIDI is great. The UI isn't Logic or Cubase but it's familliar and works. With the Rosegarden 4 tarball from the website, forget about any audio work. After reading that there is a mysterious bug with LADSPA plugins and the FFTW library I had to uninstall any app that relies on FFTW just to get Rosegarden not to crash, locking my entire system. Audacity is excellent for small multitrack projects. It's stable and has lots of good editing functions. It doesn't have a proper mixer though, so it's pretty much "press record and all the inputs on your sound card start recording." It's great for overdubs. The last small track I started was using Rosegarden to sequence Hydrogen (a drum machine, AddZynSubFx (an additive/subtractive synthesizer) and my external MIDI synth (a Korg N5) I mixed the whole thing down with Audacity. It's not done yet. I made another small track with Ardour, singing, looping and a piano and I like it but I kept wanting to use soft synths and sync to a drum machine but couldn't. It's here: http://lee.fallingforward.net/flying_flying_theOlderWeGet.ogg </opinion> -l[e^2] ------------------------------ http://www.fallingforward.net/ people experimenting with music, art and technology
