Hi,
Batz wrote:
Y-ellow All.
OK. need some help here. I regret to say that I'm not getting
much mileage out of AVlinux. I haven't felt quite like throwing a
computer out the window, since Turtle Beach first started making sound
cards. Well, OK, It's not quite that bad but it's certainly
reminiscent. Ah them were the days... However I think my days of
experiments in computer aerodynamics are behind me. :) I hope.
I'm not even quite sure what questions to ask at this point. There is
so much not working properly. It all seems quite hopeless. So
ultimately; I need to know if I am wasting my time or should I
persist? Should I move on and try a different distro? Though I
actually like the distro it self.
The test bed is fairly simple...
2.8 gig P4
1 gig RAM
Hoontech DSP124 (Envy24) sound card.
Evolution MK249 USB keyboard.
The final system will be different to this but this will have to do as
a proof of concept. All of which appears to work in and of it self.
For the most part, software will either connect to MIDI or Audio but
not both. All except for that little drum machine thing. Hydrogen? I
get sound and MIDI but it Xruns and crashes regularly. I'm not so much
worried about the Xruns at this point. There are bigger issues. Linux
sampler only works as a Zynjacku plug in. Except that Zynjacku's MIDI
comes up in the MIDI tab of JACK. Everything else comes in under the
ALSA tab. Which means there's no way to connect to it. Or no obvious way.
Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use
samples as oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as
above, I can't connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little
keyboard applet/window, it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as
well. To the point of requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows
lock themselves and I can't kill them. And JACK won't connect anything
after that. I guess I could find the process and kill it. I can't see
that being very helpful up on stage in front of an audience though.
And the last time it crashed, it seems to have crashed permanently.
Yoshimi will load and lock it self and that's all.
Perhaps the recording apps work well. I don't know. I'm not set up to
test that. And this is not my current focus.
So anyway, if any of this sound familiar and is easily fixed then I'd
be over the moon to hear about it. Or alternatively, should I move on
to try another distro?
Thanks in advance.
I don't known the distribution you mention but... for some of the things
you talk of (like using samples as oscillators) did you have a look at
Pure Data? You can easily connect midi and audio do very creative/exotic
stuff. I'm sure if you're a 'hardware guy' (if I understand correctly)
patching should be fun.
Just 2 euro-cents,
Lorenzo
Be absolutely icebox.
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