Hi Meino, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 13:04:13 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi Michael, > > Thank you for your help ! :) > > Here are the versions: > media-sound/rosegarden 11.02 > media-sound/zynaddsubfx 2.4.1 > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit 0.118.0
looks ok to me. No idea, why it doesn't work for you. > I did a aconnect -lio, which says: > > client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] > 0 'Timer ' > 1 'Announce ' > Connecting To: 15:0, 128:0 > client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel] > 0 'Midi Through Port-0' > client 28: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 3-0' [type=kernel] > 0 'VirMIDI 3-0 ' > Connecting To: 128:0 > Connected From: 128:3 > client 29: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 3-1' [type=kernel] > 0 'VirMIDI 3-1 ' > client 30: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 3-2' [type=kernel] > 0 'VirMIDI 3-2 ' > client 31: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 3-3' [type=kernel] > 0 'VirMIDI 3-3 ' > client 128: 'rosegarden' [type=user] > 0 'record in ' > Connected From: 0:1, 28:0 > 1 'sync out ' > 2 'external controller' > 3 'out 1 - General MIDI Device' > Connecting To: 28:0 > > > Then I started rosegarden, which - as expereinced before - pops up > a dialog, saying: > > The JACK Audio subsystem has stopped Rosegarden from processing audio, > probably because of a processing overload. An attempt to restart the > audio service has been made, but some problems may remain. Quitting > other running applications may improve Rosegarden's performance. > > (no jackd was running) > > When clicking [OK] the dialog disappears only to take a very very short > rest an return again and again and again.... > > In one of these short tiemes of peace and slumber I open the > preference dialog and switched off jackd transport, quit rosegarden > and start it again only to play another fresh match between me and > this damned dialog... ;-/ Looks like rosegarden cannot work with pure alsa. I did not know this. There's seq24 in portage, which seems to be a step sequencer that works without jack. You could try this one instead of rosegarden. I don't know anything about it though. > How can I prevent to scratch my skin by the roses of this garden over > and over again.....? We could try to solve your problems with jack :) I recommend qjackctl for jack-server handling. How do you start it? What use-flags are set for it? Another option is to try the versions from the pro-audio overlay (that's what I use for rosegarden, jack, ardour and some other audio related stuff). Did you try other synths with jack and rosegarden? Maybe there's a bug in zynaddsubfx. You could try eg hydrogen to test this. > Best regards, > mcc Regards, Michael > Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> [11-08-11 12:12]: > > Hi, > > > > Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 11:13:21 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > > Hi Michael, > > > I had * experiments with jack and nothing works... > > > Sometimes there was no connection at all, sometimes after a > > > short time rosegarden crashes and/or reports taht the connection > > > has gone, and so on.... > > > > this is strange. It simply works for me (tm). > > > > > May be I has simply combined the wrong things... > > > > What versions did you try? (jackd, rosegarden...) > > > > > I have no midi hardware in the sense of keyboards, external > > > synths and such. > > > > I see. > > > > > What I want is to set up a melody in rosegarden and to play > > > it via Zynaddsubfx. > > > > That's what I was thinking :) > > > > > A midi step sequencer (not sure if this this correct terminus > > > technicus, though) were also fine... > > > Any ideas? > > > > I think, aconnect (part of media-sound/alsa-utils) is the tool you want > > to try. > > Start both rosegarden and zynaddsubfx, then use aconnect -lio to see, > > what in- and out-ports were created on your system. After that use > > aconnect to connect the rosegarden out-port with the zynaddsubfx > > in-port. > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/Aconnect has some details. > > I never tried this for myself, so I have no practical experience with > > it. > > > > > best regards, > > > mcc > > > > Hth, > > Michael > > > > > If this will become too OT simply use my PM :) > > > > > > Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> [11-08-11 10:52]: > > > > Hi Meino, > > > > > > > > Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 03:02:33 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > thank you for your info ! :) > > > > > What do I need for a midi connection (sorry, I am > > > > > at the very beginning of exploring these kind of > > > > > tools and jack is everywhere... ;) ) > > > > > > > > do you have midi-ports in your soundcard? In some cases they are > > > > implemented as 5-pol Din plugs (MIDI-standard plugs), in other > > > > cases > > > > they are implemented via the gameport. Most built-in > > > > soundhardware has none. > > > > If you have those ports, the most simple (but not best) solution > > > > is to connect midi in with midi out, have rosegarden play > > > > through midi out and the synth listen to midi in. > > > > Afaik(!) alsa has virtual midi-ports, you can use, if you have > > > > no hw > > > > ports (and which would be more elegant to use), but I have no > > > > experience with them. May I ask, why you don't want to use jack? > > > > I use it for everything in my studio and I am very happy with > > > > it. There's a reason jack is everywhere in this area :) > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > mcc > > > > > > > > Hth, > > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> [11-08-11 02:45]: > > > > > > Hi Meino, > > > > > > > > > > > > Am Dienstag, 9. August 2011, 21:13:42 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > may be this is a RDQ(tm) (real dumb question), > > > > > > > but.... > > > > > > > Is it possible to connect rosegarden and > > > > > > > ZynAddSubFX > > > > > > > without using jack ??? > > > > > > > > > > > > you could use a MIDI connection. But imho jack is the > > > > > > way to go > > > > > > > > > > > > :) > > > > > > : > > > > > > > Thank you very much for any help in advance! > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > mcc > > > > > > > > > > > > Hth, > > > > > > Michael
