dsevans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I started up jackd and got hydrogen to work. thanks. Dave, As mentioned prior, you may want to turn off the aRts server. From what I understand, it's a sound server that compensates up for any sound card that doesn't allow 2 sounds to be played at the same time. aRts is probly not nessesay. Yet... it could (possibly) introduce latency (and who knows what else). With SuSE/KDE, it's running by default. To disable it, go to... --> Control Center --> Sound & Multimedia --> Sound System --> (un)check the option "Start aRts sound server on KDE startup" If you really want to be safe, reboot to make sure it's off. Hydrogen is very nice, but I had certain issues with it, so I went with a much "cleaner" situation. If I'm not mistaken, I don't think that the version of Hydrogen that comes with SuSE 9.0 allows for any "real time" inputting of notes. I think you only have the option of inputting notes with a mouse. If I'm wrong, then please correct me. But if not, then you have to connect it up to another midi program. This is (not) uncommon practice in the linux/audio world to use programs together like this. It just seems too "kludgy" to hook a "full-blown" program up to another "full-blown" program like this. So what I did was to install "simsam"... Home Page... http://simsam.sourceforge.net/ It allows you to load sound samples and assign them to any key(s) on your midi keyboard. It's much less "kludgy" than using a full blown program like Hydrogen. And unlike (some) programs, you don't have to do anything special to get it to show up in the "kaconnect" window. Just type "simsam" in a shell... start kaconnect and hook it up to a midi sequencer program or your midi keyboard or whatever... Here's the irony... if you want some great sounding sound samples, find the directory were Hydrogen keeps it's sound samples ("drum kits" are *one* compressed file full of samples). You can right click on them in KDE and choose the "extract here" option. From what I remember, that creates a file that needs to (also) be extracted. And I believe that leaves a folder of drum samples at that location. Have fun... Rocco
