On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Michael T D Nelson wrote:
I think the problem here is a confusion between the qjackctl GUI and JACK itself. ... Qjackctl is a GUI written to manage JACK; but, as I understand it, it also provides direct control of ALSA MIDI connections.
It's entirely possible that there is confusion such as you mention, on my side of the keyboard. I used to work in live sound, and have worked for the last 10 years as a computer analyst, but although I've dabbled a little (mostly with Rosegarden-2.x, and sound editting applications that were contemporary to that version), I'm still very new at using the computer for audio/MIDI manipulation, let alone for recording of any kind. I'm still very comfortable with the built-in sequencer on my ESQ1, for example, though I do hope to be able to synchronize that with Rosegarden, and perhaps something like Ardour, but it should give you an idea of where I stand regarding this type of software: it's all very new to me, and I do feel like a wide-eyed kid in a toy store. There's a learning curve, and I'm not quite at the bottom, but I am quite near it and hoping to get over the steepest portions quickly.
I have had various difficulties getting Rosegarden to send MIDI to fluidsynth (managed with qsynth). Maybe I should try the same?
It hadn't occurred to me last night to try Rosegarden to fluidsynth (for which I also use qsynth) again (I was really quite thrilled to finally hear Rosegarden play a sequence imported from a Rosegarden-2.1 file through my hardware synths and sampler, that the possibility of software synths completely escaped me for that time). I certainly imagine it will work the same: start Fluidsynth, then start Rosegarden, with no JACK intervention, and I _expect_ that it will work (Rosegarden _was_ aware of FluidSynth running in my earlier attempts, but I also had JACK running during those times, and was not seeing any MIDI from Rosegarden to FluidSynth). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Major in Electroacoustic Studies Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts / Music Department Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
