Rachel, On Tuesday 27 January 2004 9:31 pm, RachelAPP wrote: > Hi > I am new to Linux and new to this list - a friend of mine set it up last WE > cause i was fed up with Windows and its capitalist way of working. I have > Debian 2.4.22 i think (i know it's 2.4 something). It got installed using > Knoppix then it got upgraded. We tried to upgrade it to 2.6 but some things > were obviously wrong in the set up as it doesn't boot properly (probably > something wrong with the graphic settings cause the screen goes all black). > So i boot to 2.4. You're best off sticking with the 2.4.22 kernel for many reasons. That's the version number for the Linux kernel rather than the Debian version (3.1 - aka 'Sarge' I'd guess) > I have a Terratec DMX 6 Fire soundcard and Rosegarden 4 and Audacity but my > problem is i don't seem to be able to record anything. I plugged in my 4 > tracks portastudio into the line input as i used to do and i can hear it on > my monitors but i can't record anything in Audacity. I have tried to play > around with the various things in the alsamixer, setting everything to > Capture and all the levels up and so on, but to no avail. > Has anyone got any idea why i can't record? No, it sounds like your soundcard is more-or-less configured. It would help if you could generate some useful error messages, Audacity's not the best for that. You should only have to have capture enabled on the line-in bit of the mixer and have 'line' selected as input on Audacity. If not you have reason to suspect your sound set-up. Are you using ALSA? > I also have a question about Rosegarden4. I have a Evolution MIDI keyboard > controller, it's a USB device - i don't seem to get any MIDI date in when > it's plugged via the USB port but i get MIDI data in when i plug it into > the front MIDI input on my soundcard, which is OK for now (i will look into > this USB thing when i upgrade to 2.6 properly i guess). However, i cannot > hear anything - i have set things to "Midi device 1 channel 1" for example > and then selected a bank and a sound - i know the MIDI data gets in as i > can see the small U-meter near the track number go up and down but can't > hear anything. When i go to the set up, it says somewhere "MIDI OK, no > audio" - what does it mean and is it a problem? Rosegarden4 doesn't actually make any sound all on its own AFAIK, you have to connect it up to a softsynth using Jackd. I use MusE generally, It's much quicker to get working with and has softsynths 'built in' - so to speak. Sounds like MIDI is configured ok. > I was used to a few programs under Windows but i am not a master in any of > them under Windows and i am totally new to the Linux environment so i'm not > sure whether it is connected to something wrong in my set up or me not > understanding how the software actually works... Could easily be a bit of both ... If you have a full Debian system installed you'll probably already havea fair amount of documentation on your hard drive. Reading is good :-) Collecting useful looking error messages is also good practice. > Any help would be very much appreciated, especially with the audacity > recording issue as i've done some recordings with a friend and we want to > mix them now but we are stuck because of this issue! There are a multiplicity of different ways this can be achieved. Snd & Sweep do much the same thing and it's also worth getting familiar with command-line tools: typing: arecord whatever.wav aplay whatever.wav into an xterm is probably the most basic way of achieving the object. If that doesn't work you have set-up problems. HTH tim hall
