Well I've got a working Linux studio setup finally. :) Rosegarden is seeming quite nice and I've made one or two half-decent noises. I have a few daft questions: 1) How does one use the DSSI sampler instrument? Couldn't figure this out. I've also installed the Chionic sampler, which I can play via my MIDI keyboard by connecting it up to it with JACK: however for some reason I'm unable to control it through Rosegarden, whereas I can control eg. amSynth without problems the same way - confusing?? 2) In your opinion: realtime music production: kief or kak? I find that even without effects, triggering eg. Hexter lots of times will cause xruns on my system (2.4GHz p4, 512MB RAM); which basically totally screws me out of ever getting a decent recording out of Rosegarden. :( Which makes me sad. :( I'm also interested in making really heavily processed music (it should sound as if the computer were violently shitting it out :D), but this is a problem for me where this can't be done realtime. :( LMMS is a suitable app to use in this respect, but is not really mature or stable enough for my liking, and the it's not nearly so nice a sequencer as Rosegarden. 3) More dumb questions here... How can I make girls like me? etc. Best Regards, Drew
