Viktor Mastoridis wrote: > Thanks for this, guys. > > You are right, .gig is superior to sf2. > > But how/where should one record/edit gig-drums? > > Hydrogen doesn't import gig's. > Rosegarden and Qtractor don't have dedicated drum editors (although > rosegarden has its inner LinuxSampler plugin which is good for melodic > instruments only) > Rosegarden HAVE a drum editor ! click on a track and "D" What is the drums.gig you use ?? > The only midi sequencer that has a drum editor and can work with > giga-files as far as I know is Muse. But I can't figure out how to > create a separate channel for each of the instruments, with the option > to control the vol/pan/fx. > > Any ideas here? Tapeutape, driven by Rosegarden. Outs of Tapeutape recorded in Ardour. HTH, Fred. > > vm > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Fred <f.rech@xxxxxxxx > <mailto:f.rech@xxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Viktor Mastoridis wrote: > > I keep on getting Xruns when trying to work with soundfonts on > > rosegarden or muse, especially if I combine several sf2 banks with > > several audio tracks (on Ardour, prior to use plugins). So far, > I was > > running them through Qsynth, but I read on the net that the > > combination of Qsynth, Rosegarden/Muse and Ardour is regarded as not > > so stable? > > > > Thus, if you don't mind sharing your experience, I will be thankful. > > > > What is the best way that you use Soundfont banks in Linux? > > > > By 'best', I mean the most stable way, without X-runs and > > listing/access to all the banks and instruments in a soundfont. > Hi Viktor, > > Do you try to run Fluidsynth directly from Rosegarden ? (you can > find it > in "synth plugin" on the left pannel) > You can have several runs of it, one for each MIDI track, each one can > load his sound as you like. > On my old P4 + 1GbRAM can run 10 tracks with no problem (don't > have test > more cause don't need yet) > > > Is running fluidsynth from a command line a better alternative then > > qsynth and why? > > (fluidsynth command line: how does one create a midi input and audio > > output port for each sf2 bank?) > Don't know ! But think that Fluid is just a GUI for Q (not sure of > that) > > > > > > Can you please tell me your experience in buying professional > .gig or > > .sf2 sounds? > > Strings, pianos, accordeons especially. > > Sites, prices, quality? > I don't use yet... Maybe a good idea ? If you do so, could you please > let me know ? > > > > What is better for profesional results: .sf2 or .gig? > Well, do you think a bank including 127 differents sounds and a > complete > drumset in less 100M can compete > with another one including only 1 instrument in more 1G ?? ;o)) > > > > > thanks in advance > > Viktor > Greets, > Fred > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user