>From Chris Cannam on Friday, 2004-01-09 at 09:06:19 +0000: > On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 11:24 pm, Conrad Newton wrote: > > I have not yet looked at muse, but I did briefly investigate > > rosegarden4, and immediately tripped over the use of jack. > > Rosegarden does need JACK for audio, yes. If you only want MIDI and > notation -- and when I say MIDI I include the ability to drive ALSA > soft synths such as Timidity, qsynth or Fluidsynth -- then you can > build it happily without JACK or run a JACK-built version without > running jackd. I'm not sure that I understand this comment, although it sounds quite interesting. Are you saying that I should rebuild the program without JACK? Or that via a softsynth I can use the program anyway, without running jackd? What, if anything, would I be missing out on by running the program in this way? Conrad
