Hi all, I'm just making my first steps into recording/composing in Linux, with some success. I've got an complete up-to-date PlanetCCRMA FC3 installation, on a P3 700Mhz machine, with something in the region of 640Mb RAM, and a dirt cheap CMI8738 soundcard. You can't go wrong with a soundcard that cost less than ?5! (I'll get something better soon, don't worry...) At the moment, I've started jack with qjackctl. I'm recording my guitar in ardour, alongside some sampled drum sounds. The drum sounds are arranged in Rosegarden, and generated by fluidsynth - using the 'nskit' soundfont from 'natural studio'. I'm using fluidsynth with the qsynth gui. Now, this is my first problem: Whenever I start Rosegarden's transport, I hear no drum sounds from qsynth. If I click on qsynth's 'Channels' button, and then double-click on the channel, I see "nskit_7free" in channel 1. If I either double-click on that channel, or toggle the "preview" tick box, fluidsynth starts generating audio output. Am I doing something wrong? Is there something I can do to make the settings permanent? Thanks Michael Nelson
