On November 10, 2019 10:26:22 AM HST, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi John, > >On 10/11/19 18:00, John Whitmore wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> First post so obviously a newbie question. And this, I know, is a >question >> without answer, as it's a bit subjective. So what is the most >convinient >> distro to get started on. > >[...] >> >> I've previosuly been using an Ubuntu distro which worked up to a >point, that >> point being 'rosegarden'. I really wanted to play with rosegarden so >I could >> enter musical notation and list to the results. That was a step too >far for >> me. > >As you say this is really subjective, but I'm quite happy since a while >with Manjaro which is an Arch spin-off. Audio-wise it has realtime >kernel packaged out of the box as well as most common audio >applications. I have Rosegarden making sounds just fine on Debian Testing and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I added the KXStudio repositories to both. I use Cadence for managing JACK and audio connections. I used QJackQTL for a long while but Cadence is more powerful and seems to incorporate PulseAudio better. >Final thought, although not distro related, for your use case I'd grab >a >'gernal midi' soundfont (for instance the FluidR3_GM one - also >packaged as 'soundfont-fluid' - and connect rosegarden to it vie either >fluidsynth (command line), or qsynth (fluiidsynth frontend), or one of >the fluidsynth plugins. > >For example if I need to quickly sketch something (and am not too >bother by quality). I fire up qjacktrl, start rosegarden and then have a >script ready like this: > >fluidsynth -j -l /path/to/FluidR3_GM.sf2 -o synth.polyphony=512 > >Of course this could be even further automated with a script launching, > >jack, then rosegarden, then fluidsynth :) Yes, FluidR3 soundfont with fluidsynth is good. I usully use a fluidsynth DSSI plugin with Rosegarden. Makes things easier for me. I also have an external Yamaha keyboard set up and connected all the time. It's part of my Rosegarden default studio so I forget it's there. So sometimes I'll start composing something in RG and hit Play, then go, "Where's that coming from?" then go, "Oh, yeah." --- David W. Jones gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
