On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 12:32:17PM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote:
> Would you be willing to describe your setup a little more? I'm sure
> people on the list would be interested, or maybe as an article for
> undeadly.org.
>
I've used the following hardware:
- pentium 200MHz with 256M of RAM running a recent snapshot.
- m-audio keystation 61es umidi(4) keyboard
- roland xv-2020 umidi(4) sound module
- m-audio mobilepre uaudio(4) sound card
- analog devices: amplifier, mixer, speakers...
when notes are played on the keyboard, the computer receives the
corresponding MIDI events. They are processed and sent to the sound module
(the synthesizer) that generates the actual sound. I've used midish to
process the MIDI stream in real-time and to record the different instruments
(one by one) on separate MIDI tracks. That's most of the work.
The analog output of the sound module is connected to an amplifier, so i can
hear what I'm playing. Once the music piece is finished, i connect the
output of the sound module to the input a my sound card and just record it
into a file. Finally i used oggenc (audio/vorbis-tools from ports) to
compress the audio file.
for the last step i used another box (pentium III at 550MHz), since the
first one died.
so basically the following summarizes my setup:
--------+ +----------+
|---<---| keyboard |
| usb +----------+
computer |
| +-------+ analog
|---<---| sound |---->--+--->--- amplifier
| usb | module| |
| +-------+ |
| |
| +-------+ |
|---<---| sound |----<--+
| usb | card |
--------+ +-------+
--
Alexandre
