On 10/02/21 05:24, david wrote:
> On 2/8/21 10:21 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> On 09/02/21 00:00, [email protected] wrote:
[...]
> [snipped a great personal tale of learning an instrument]
glad I put the [OT] flag on this one :-)
> 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 see your point. But it's not _that_ complicated _if_ you have the
right packages installed (which is more about Linux distributions and
package management and was also one of the problems of the OP):
0. Start Jack (actually optional if, like in this example you are using
an 'external synth')
1. Start Qsynth
2. Load Soundfont
3. Start Rosegarden
4. Connect to Qsynth
5. Add notes in Rosegarden
6. Play
1. and 2. could be optimized by starting qsynth from the command-line...
Even in a more 'self-contained' programme, imagining it supplies
fluidsynth (or a synth player) and a soundfont, and auto-magically
sets-up audio for you, you probably have to at least:
1. create a (MIDI) track
2 ,tell the programme you want the track to play through the synth with
the soundfont
3. Add notes
4. Play
LMMS comes to mind as a software where getting sound is _really_ quick
(assuming audio backend is configured correctly and working):
1. Drag a synth (a track will automatically be created)
2. Add notes
3. Play
OK Rosegarden has double the steps... in my case I have a script(s)
which starts Fluidsynth + selected (GM/GS) soundfont(s) and connects it
to jack which takes care of 1. 2. and 3. (because rosegarden
auto-connects to Fluid its General MIDI output).
I also have a rosegarden template I made which opens at startup instead
of the default one where I removed the audio tracks and instead has 16
MIDI tracks (with different colours). I'm happy to share it if anyone is
interested.
On the bonus side you get all of the great sequencer, notation, jack
transport etc. features in Rosegarden... It really depends on your music
making scenario.
Anyway, the rosegarden steps above could be embedded maybe in a
'wizard'. Probably it could even be hacked with yad (a zenity fork, or
something scripted)
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.
I hope so too. the fluidsynth DSSI plugin and hexter are two of my
favourite ones. I'm not sure how many DSSI plugins are actively
developed and maintained (package-wise in distros).
> Although I do have wishes re Rosegarden and how it interacts with
softsynths such as Yoshimi...
Are you thinking, uhm, LV2...? :-)
Lorenzo.
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