On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
I use an Alesis QS-8 keyboard and an ADAT. They work as well or better than they did with the Mac.
I _have_ to ask: are you successfully sync'ing the ADAT to Ardour and/or Rosegarden? If so, I'd be _very_ interested in seeing the details of how you've set it up. Since I've jumped in, I might as well provide my own answer ... On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, tim hall wrote:
I'd like to take a straw poll on how many Linux Audio users make use of external MIDI devices. As a straight hands-up would be unlikely to yield useful results, perhaps people could suggest what percentage of external-MIDI-users exist within the LAU group. (As of Jan 06, say)
I don't know what percentage I count as, but I'm currently using _mostly_ outboard MIDI equipment: sound modules are an ESQ1, DW8000, TX7, S2000, and a Roland GR09 (that I actually haven't yet used MIDIed from the computer), while controllers include the ESQ1 (which I use the most), a Roland Octapad, and the aforementioned GR09. I also have some outboard effects that I have MIDIed (in the past; I've not yet tried this on my current music workstation) to the computer for backing up via SysEx. On the software side, I'm still _very_ new, having only experimented a little with FluidSynth/QSynth and LinuxSampler (for which I have very high hopes). I played around with Bristol a few years back when Dave Phillips highlighted it in a Linux Journal article, but the computer I was using then was perhaps not entirely up to the task, so I never took that very far. I'm likely to try to see if the version I have still works on my new system. I also did a fair bit of work around and previous to that time, with a number of other software packages, but nothing that seems to have really taken off nor to have particularly struck me as _must_have_ software, though I'm very likely to revisit any packages that are still around (and suitably maintained) now. If I can successfully synchronize my ADATs and the sequencer in my ESQ1 to Ardour and Rosegarden, I'll have accomplished exactly what I'm hoping for for this music system. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Major in Electroacoustic Studies Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts / Music Department Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
