On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 10:07 +0200, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your answer, but still there is something I don't get. > > Am 19.09.2011 um 20:49 schrieb Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>: > > > PS: I'm not using Rosegarden. It might be that Rosegarden did show > > general MIDI information, even if no plug-in is loaded. E.g. the default > > might be "1 Acoustic Grand Piano". Perhaps Rosegarden than send the so > > called program change MIDI event, that will switch to sound number 1, > > but it won't play a audible note, because no plug-in synth is loaded, > > resp. no synth is connected to MIDI out. > > Let me try to put it in my words: rosegarden shows general midi information > for any possible sw or hw synth here that has to be connected in order to get > something out of the speakers. If this is true, I wonder where "Acoustic > grand piano" comes from, because (if I understand all of this correctly) the > sound itself is done by the synth and not by the sequencer. So the sequencer > shouldn't know anything about the names of the soundfonts that are loaded by > the synth, it should only display eg the name of the connection itself eg > "midi connection 1" that is communicating with the synth, correct? > > If I am right, I wonder about the name of the midi information in rosegarden. > Does anybody know if the naming here is some kind of rest from a synth that > was eg included in rosegarden (which is a possible explanation of the naming > here to me)? >
This seems to be bad coding by the Rosegarden coders. I suspect that they refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI, instead of just using numbers, they perhaps add names. If so, it would be very stupid. > > The only advantage of > > Rosegarden is, that it has got a notation software included. I don't > > need this. Do you need notation printing? > > Notation... Well, let me put it that way: Normal musicians in "rock music" > (as a wide definition of what I like) shouldn't ever need to write down their > stuff because after all, they know what they are playing. If you ever become > famous, of course, there is a possibility that you may forget some parts of > old songs, but then you still have the internet :) In this context, there is > the story from Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) who replied to the question why > they don't play "Alexander the great" anymore live: "Because Adrian can't > remember the solo". I am not sure if the story is true, but it shows that > learning notation could be useful :) I'm unable to read notes, when I privately taught music somebody wished to get information about rules for composing. Just before the leassons I visited a public library and read about music theory and notes. I told him, that it's stupid, but he payed me, so I gave him, what he wanted. You learn playing Rock music in the streets, not by books. 2 Cents YMMV. > > Great, > Dennis > > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
