[Glastonbury] jackd

[Richard Bown]

Hi Maurice,

You've got to make sure that you've got a softsynth installed and running
on your box alongside Rosegarden - say something like QSynth/fluidsynth or
amsynth or similar to act as a MIDI sink.  Alternatively you can utilise
an external MIDI synth (hardware) or your soundcard's onboard synth (if it
exists.  If it's a recent build of Rosegarden (0.9.8+ I'm thinking) then
you can install the DSSI synths too - which are integrated softsynths that
run alongside Rosegarden sessions and can be treated to audio plugins
(both native and VSTs).

For these and other answers please see the Rosegarden users mailing list
archives and the FAQs.

HTH,
Richard


-----Original Message-----
From: glastonbury-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:glastonbury-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of maurice
Sent: 03 January 2005 12:03
To: The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)
Subject: Re: [Glastonbury] jackd


I just got round to looking seriously (well almost) at Rosegarden Midi
Sequencer. Got it linked to jackd which was fortunately installed
effortlessly by Mandrake. Rosegarden suggest a series of command-line
arguments producing:

/usr/bin/jackd -d alsa -d hw -r44100 -p 2048 -n 2

It is clear that jackd has been invoked since the odd message appears saying
it's being overloaded. However, it is also clear that there is absolute
silence when playing a midi file and all system sounds are switched off and
stay so until the system is re-booted. CD plays normally.

Any suggestions please?

On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 12:40, tim hall wrote:
> Last Saturday 25 December 2004 18:17, maurice was like:
> > After installing a midi sequencer
>
> Is that any particular MIDI sequencer, Rosegarden for instance?
>
> > a message appeared on booting the
> > application. Jackd was needed. I've found a jackd file using whereis.
But
> > it is a bz2 file and says only the owner can access it.
>
> I'd recommend installing QJackCtl, which is a GUI for Jackd. Check that
you
> actually have Jackd installed, Jackstart is also worth looking for.
>
> There is some information here, which is specifically for the
AGNULA/DeMuDi
> distro, so you may have to translate, the principles will be the same.
> http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ#JACK
> Read the whole article and follow the links.
> also:
> http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php
> http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/resources/faq/
>
http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/using-rosegarden/en/chapter-0.ht
>ml should provide some additional clues.
>
> You need to have ALSA installed and running for any of this to work. You
> may need to add a line to your ALSA configuration to get external MIDI to
> work.
>
> > What do I do please to make my midi application produce sound.
>
> Music software for Mandrake is available here:
> http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.0.html
> http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound10.0.html
>
> cheers
>
> tim hall
> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
>
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