tim hall wrote: >>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. > 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've had this same problem with every version of Rosegarden I've tried for the last year. I've got an SBlive so I load up 8mbgmsfx.sf2 with asfxload then start rosegarden, import a mid file and then goto Composition->Studio->Manage MIDI Devices, click New and the drop down to the left shows a variety of ALSA ports so I select "65:0 Emu10K1 Port 0 (write)" and the dropdown always goes back to "No connection"... no matter what variation I try. pmidi -p 65:0 some.mid works. muse(seq) works with this combo and also with timidity -iA. Just now I loaded up qjackctl and qsynth with the same sf2 and indeed rosegarden shows "129:0 Synth input port (32135:0)" but the dropdown always reverts to "No connection". I hope I'm doing something really dumb but I've tried at least a dozen times over the last 12 months with various versions of rosegarden, kernels and alsa and everything else looks like it will work except I can't select any instruments. The only thing is I am running an AMD64 box... but like I say, most other software that I have tried does work. --markc
