Hi! I think you might try ardour. I know it can host and record VST-generated sounds. At least I believe so. Anyone can confrim? With your setup, it seems to me you might want to kick timidity++ out of your chain. Timidity plays sounds using its own sounds (GUS-patches or soundfonts), if not for me it had a great latency. I don't know exactly about freeST, but it might have it's own midi port. So in an xterm or on the console you may try: aconnect -li and aconnect -lo This will display all alsasequencer midi-ports currently in existence. You can also use some graphical patchbay to do the same. I think ghostess is a nice one, just search for "patchbay", you should get a list of them. Then connect your rosegarden midi-out (if it has one) to your freeVST in (if that has one) and connect your FreeVST jack_output to audacity. So take the following example: aconnect -li 16: soundcard midi 128: FreeVst aconnect -lo 16: soundcard 129: rosegarden aconnect 129 128 # rosegarden-output to freevst jack_lsp [...] # soundcard ports Audacity:in_1 Audacity:in_2 Audacity:out_1 Audacity:out_2 FreeVST:out_1 FreeVST:out_2 jack_connect FreeVST:out_1 Audacity:in_1 jack_connect FreeVST:out_2 Audacity:in_2 And then start your rosegarden. If rosegarden sends a proper start-control for all the apps, recording and playback will start simultaneously. Another choice for rosegarden might be: MuSE (not sure about the capital-letters in there. At least it can do audio and midi in one tool. I don't know about ardour's capacity to playback MIDI-files, but it might also be achoice, although a very powerful - and with that - probably moe complex choice. Hope that helps! Kindest regards Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user