Re: which apps to choose for the job and how to set things up?

["Dominic Arsenault" <dominic.arsenault@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot, Julien, for your "tutorial". I have successfully set things up and managed to get sound and all! Only problem is I have too much lag. I think I would have to install the realtime kernel, and try my USB Audiophile soundcard. I'm pretty worn out from these weeks of struggling though. Yesterday I launched my Windows laptop and within two hours had completed the MIDI to VST output process. That was so nice. I think I'll stick with it and record the VSTI-ed output in wav files, then send them over to my Linux pc for the audio recording and editing (which works very well without problems). If I ever get a problem with my laptop I'll try my hand in returning to a Linux VSTI set-up, but for now I'm exhausted, and I'd rather cross the river if my current bridge ever fails. I hope the next Ardour release will give an easier time to aspiring Linux musicians with specific needs (I realize I was asking for something pretty specific. "standard" audio and MIDI isn't that hard to get). Thankfully, the user community is very supportive! :)

Cheers,
Dominic

On 8/20/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8/19/07, Julien Claassen < julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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