On Saturday 06 December 2003 10:00, Eduardo Guerrero wrote: > Hi, this success story with my midi setup is dedicated to all of you who > have helped me these days. > > I'm finally being able to play with my keyboard the sounds generated by > ZynAddSubFX hearing them coming out from the speakers as I play. That's > great by itself due to the almost unlimited capabilities of Zyn. Then I > got stereo sound which was previously unavailable. Frankly I don't know > the reason, but when I upgraded from Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2 panning started > to work properly. > > Then I have Hydrogen. I'm making some good beats with it and playing > along with my keyboard. This brings me to my 2 questions: > > - Is there a way to mix levels of the audio streams going to the > alsa_pcm port? I have the possibility of turning up or down the volume > in Zyn but it isn't as flexible as it could be since, in this case, > Hydrogen doesn't have a volume control (or I haven't figured out where > is it). Volume? It's the first Fader on the right (Master output) > > - Can I use some FX on the audio stream? A filter bank, a reverb or a > delay line can do wonders to the already-wonderful sound I now have. > With audio stream I'm referring to the mixed sounds coming from Zyn and > Hydrogen to the alsa_pcm port (labeled as input, but in my point of view > it could be the output port --sorry for being selfish here). > Yes, you can use FX on your audio stream, but you have to use Jack as audio driver. Hydrogen has up to 32 jack output ports: you can assign every instrument with a different FX (e.g: with jack-rack) > - Is there a way to share bpm information between apps? For syncing > delays it would be great not to have to fire up the delay calculator. I > don't have many, if any, programming skills but I guess it would be as > simple as using an environment variable. Perhaps the functionality is > already there but I haven't found it or nobody uses it. > Again, JACK is the solution. Hydrogen is a jack-transport enabled app, so you can share the bpm and the song position with others jack-enabled programs. ciao -- Alessandro <Comix> Cominu http://hydrogen.sf.net e-mail: comix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Icq: 116354077 Linux User # 203765 [...Codito Ergo Sum...]
