On 2/8/21 10:21 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
On 09/02/21 00:00, [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:05:04 +0100
Tom Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
I sympathize with the devs who want to
just improve the product that is but its
extremely frustrating to have to hunt for
basics. Let's not forget that a user may
well be a novice to both musicware AND Linux.
I don't think I fully agree. In general there is a misconception that
one should be able to 'make music' quick and easy. It's simply not the
case. Be it with a computer or not.
[snipped a great personal tale of learning an instrument]
I don't think the original poster's request was to "make music" quickly
and easily, it was to "make a sound" quickly and easily. IOW, fire up
Rosegarden, maybe open one of the demo files, hit play, and hear sounds.
I told this personal story, and I'm sure many musicians here have
similar storied, to say that music making (like any artistic craft),
take effort and one should be distrust marketing slogans about
(especially software) like 'start making your tunes in minutes!' etc.
So... As Ted's guide illustrates the process isn't that complicated.
At the core you need:
- Rosegarden, jack, some alsa-midi capable fluidsynth player and a
soundfont
[ think of this as bass, jack, amplifier in the example above, you can
think of the soundfont as the amplifier type/brand... well kinda]
- start jack
- start fluidsynth player and load soundfont
- connect rosegarden general midi output to fluidsynth player (via
alsa midi)
- connect fluidsynth player to system playback
- Start making yuor masterpiece
Actually, in this setting you could theoretically skip jack audio.
And, really, I think jack audio is there only to either use synth
plugins (mostly dead due to DSSI these days), or audio recording.
Hope DSSI isn't dead. I use it DSSI's regularly. Although I do have
wishes re Rosegarden and how it interacts with softsynths such as Yoshimi...
Again, I wanna stress that I'm trying to
throw pebbles but leaving earth orbit should
kinda come before nuclear sails or mars
landings. Is it THAT difficult to hardwire
SOME minimal sound ability if only to show
that the right software is being tried?
Other apps can do it, at least at some
rudimentary level at first.
--
David W. Jones
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