Last Sunday 13 February 2005 08:07, Noah Roberts was like: > Rosegarden just doesn't seem to be working for me. The keyboard > connection is initialized according to configuration panel-> midi > stats. I can load a midi and play it to the keyboard using rosegarden. > > But for one thing there are no instruments to choose from. Both right > click on a track and going to find 'instrument' in the menus yeilds a > blank menu. > > Second, the "midi connection manager" is not working as described. I > can create new devices in both play and record but I cannot connect them > to the soundcard connection to my keyboard. The choice is in the > dropdown, but when I click on it the "No Connection" item remains selected. > > When I try to record I get a "No record instrument selected." I think > it wants me to select a non-existant instrument? > > What am I missing? Uhm, Instruments? (just a thought ;-) Rosegarden doesn't actually contain any instruments as such. If your version is compiled with DSSI support, you will be able to use synth plugins. Else you need to connect to a softsynth via JACK. I generally launch QJackCtl and QSynth (fluidsynth gui) and then Rosegarden. I trust you are already familiar with these: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/resources/faq/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/using-rosegarden/en/chapter-0.html (there is a German translation too) Forgive me if you have already figured all this. I find a statement of the PBO can often be helpful at times like these. :-) cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
