I'm neither of the two Dans but may I suggest Dave Philipp's regular columns in LinuxJournal which available online e.g. <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10162">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10162</a> et subs.<br>
<br>Clive<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:01 PM, james morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jwm-art.net">james@jwm-art.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 5/10/2009, "Kevin Groves" <<a href="mailto:kgroves@ksoft-electrical-projects.co.uk">kgroves@ksoft-electrical-projects.co.uk</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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>My M-Audio turn up today. I've had it hooked up to LMMS for over an hour<br>
>and LMMS only dropped out once and the USB remained stable, so I would<br>
>say yours is definately a bad USB socket.<br>
><br>
>I'm very happy with this keyboard (M-Audio Keyrig 49 should anyone else<br>
>be looking).<br>
><br>
>Thanks for showing me yours!<br>
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</div>Hi Kev,<br>
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No problem, glad to be of some help. I might have to take a look at lmms<br>
some time....<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">james.<br>
</font><br>
P.S. At the meeting, the two Dans were looking at a page with a list of<br>
ten or twenty linux audio apps, but I can't remember the address, can<br>
you post here please?<br>
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>james morris wrote:<br>
>> On 20/9/2009, "Kevin Groves" <<a href="mailto:kgroves@ksoft-electrical-projects.co.uk">kgroves@ksoft-electrical-projects.co.uk</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> Short notice but if anyone who can come along and messes with MIDI<br>
>>> instruments wouldnt mind showing me the gear and software they might use<br>
>>> I would be very pleased! :-)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks<br>
>>> Kev,<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi Kev,<br>
>><br>
>> A list of audio/MIDI software for Linux here:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/start" target="_blank">http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/start</a><br>
>><br>
>> What you want depends on how far you're willing to get into it. When you<br>
>> say MIDI instruments do you mean hardware of software?<br>
>><br>
>> I'm running a seperate Debian Lenny install minus any audio packages -<br>
>> all audio/midi stuff i've downloaded and built from source (the least<br>
>> easy way of doing it, but it suits me) with a realtime patched 2.6.26<br>
>> kernel (igno molnar patches), etc,etc,etc,etc,etc...<br>
>><br>
>> There are variants of the main distros (ubuntu studio/pure<br>
>> dyne/64studio/planet ccrma) tuned for multimedia production for the easy<br>
>> route. If you're wanting to have software synths, software drum<br>
>> machines, software samplers, hard disk recorders (ie ardour2), then<br>
>> you'll need the realtime stuff, but i read somewhere you can get away<br>
>> without having a realtime (preemptive scheduling) kernel, with something<br>
>> like Rosegarden (a MIDI sequencer with all bells/whistles) and<br>
>> fluidsynth.<br>
>><br>
>> I could probably bring my desktop with me, if you're interested to see<br>
>> the above software running, but I don't have any speakers I could<br>
>> bring, otherwise it's headphones.<br>
>><br>
>> James.<br>
>><br>
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