On Friday 11 June 2004 11.13, David Baron wrote: > Got that working. However, most of the user interface in unreadable, i.e. > blue-white text on white background. I tried editing the default options bg > colours in the ardour_ui.rc file but this did not work. Maybe I do not > understand the RGB factors that appear to be there or whether these are RGB > factors. Some sort of visual shell for doing this is definitely in order. > Also, I found one can add all kinds of connections but once they are added, > one cannot get rid of them. > > Rosegarden has a strange setup (studio) interface and > muse does not know what XG is MusE does have a setting for XG (Settings->Midi Ports/Soft Synths->(the instrument column), though as I don't have any XG equipment I don't know if it works correctly (it should). > and Ardour does not do MIDI at all. > > Using muse to play an existing, very dense MIDI file. NO problems except > that the file is 120/q and this is not an option in the program. Sorry, I'm midi illiterate. What does 120/q mean? If you mean changing tempo this is in the transport window: http://lmuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Window_Reference_Guide#Transport_Panel (picture is missing though) > Cannot > hear any difference. MIDI must out to a real MIDI port, not to qjackctl > MIDI port. For the record, qjackctl lists the alsa-sequencer midi-ports, they are not anything that is specific to qjackctl. Setup a midi device in the Midi Ports/Soft Synths dialog described above and then select this as output device for your midi track. Then you should be off! :-) > I tried some of the soft-synths and they worked fine. First time > out, they had skips but later on, no problem at all and seeing I am running > on a stock kernel on a 575mhz system and setiathome was running in the > background, I think this is OK! Sounds great. > > I was able to play XMMS wave file and listen to an internet "radio" > broadcast simultaneously (fun!) without a skip or xrun. Not at all bad. Good :) /Robert > The > little qjackctl utility could use a mixer for all those "connections" :-), > ( > > Tthis UI is better than the windoze virtual audio cable interface and. > Works like MIDI thruway for MIDI. Just add the virtual channels. -- http://spamatica.se/music/
