On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Hein Zelle wrote: > > 4. Digitize all the MIDI tracks to audio tracks > I've had some success tying rosegarden and ardour together to > achieve that, you can even use pmidi with timidity or a different Yeah, my workflow is the same as David's, but I've been using Timidity on the command line to render my MIDI files for subsequent overdubbing since 1997 (under Windows at the time), when I discovered it produced much cleaner results than recording analog from my Gravis sound card. I have yet to find a GUI composition tool whose MIDI to audio conversion process was less cumbersome than saving to a MIDI file and typing "timidity mysong.mid", sometimes one track at a time if I'm feeling obsessive-compulsive, but I do pretty much use the same patchset for everything. The closest to a comfortable all-in-one solution I ever found was Buzz, and even then I had to render to WAV before overdubbing in Cool Edit or Audacity. Maybe one of these days I'll switch to a distro whose sound support is all there (currently I'm using Mandriva 2007 Spring, and every few weeks ALSA will decide it just doesn't want to give me any sound anymore, not that it matters because several of the audio apps I installed from Mandriva packages, and want to use, have crashed before even letting me compose one note, including both LMMS and Rosegarden) but right now, the idea of setting up a sequencer that does its own MIDI rendering and lets me do overdubs all at once is still too good to be true. Anyway, I look forward to the results of David's tests. Rob _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
