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
I'm also fond of the aconnect solution. You aren't reliant on how the sequencer's developers decided to set things up. Is there any loss of timing, anyone? Although right now, Csound's ALSA midi output isn't working for me.
I haven't been able to get Rosegarden to load Csound's csLADSPA, perhaps it doesn't use LADSPA_PATH to search for plugins. It has its own plugin directory. I know Rosegarden is pretty and a bit more developed, but Muse seems to be more useful sometimes. Of course neither one has an interface like some of the commercial programs- yet- but I think it'll happen, gradually.
I haven't used Ardour much, I understand it's pretty cool, but you could totally use Audacity for both steps 2 and 3.
ALTHOUGH, I read that someone was commissioned to add MIDI sequencing to Ardour! So maybe in another few months, Ardour could be the only program necessary for the whole process! Future Linux composers will look back and say "How did they manage like that?"
-Chuckk
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
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