[Cialug] MIDI anyone?

[Colin Burnett]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Matthew Nuzum<newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> I looked into this earlier this year and I found this is one of the few
> areas where the OSS software is just no where even close to the commercial
> software. Call it "consumer to mid-level professional audio composition and
> playback."

I haven't tried any commercial software to have a comparison.
Rosegarden seems pretty nice but I'm not sure how to use it very well.
 I composed a song and played it on my keyboard over MIDI.  Great, but
now I want it to synthesize it in software and take notes from the
keyboard, which I believe it requires a software synth like timidity
to do so.  Stuff commercial software has solved long ago.

I'm sure the voices/sound fonts are horribly lacking for FOSS so that
may be the ultimate driver for me to commercial software but I'm
willing to give it a shot first.

> Maybe the Linux world has been hampered because of our moving-target
> audio infrastructure (oss/alsa/pulseaudio)

And there's JACK on top of that: something else I don't have set up
(Rosegarden complains HZ in my kernel is too high to be real-time so
there's another recompile).  And I haven't found a good HOWTO yet to
do all this from hardware to software.  Perhaps I should write one...


Colin