[nflug] Re: midi

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I use the dag repo all the time although it's down at the moment

jb wrote:

>I got rosegarden installed. I usually use the smart installer but the repos 
>that I use clash with ccrma and a few others so I set up synaptic to use the 
>clashing repos. I think the issue is more or less with the fc4 base upgrades 
>so the programs on the clashing repos are basically good to go in most 
>situations as long as you don't use them to upgrade the system. Anyway I 
>installed rosegarden with the ccrma repo and it seems to be working fine 
>except for the mid file issue but I think I found a workaround with using 
>timidity and this
>timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os &
>At first this worked but for some reason it stopped so I think all I have to 
>do is read up on timidity  and terminal commands to get the midi sound going.
>I used to really like RH9 and recently did a clean install to FC4 which I 
>think is a very well put together version. I tried fc1-3 as upgrades but 
>didn't care for those versions. I tested them out as an upgrade but I figured 
>going from RH9 to FC4 I better just do a clean install. Alsa seems to work 
>fine and I have jack installed but I'm not sure how it works. I also have the 
>Jack Rack and Jack Mixer, just haven't played around with that stuff all that 
>much. All that sound stuff is avaliable from the ccrma repo just have to be 
>careful about compatable repos. FC4 comes with yum and the base repos but 
>those aren't compatable with repos like DAG, CCRMA, Dries etc for upgrading. 
>I just use the base yum compatable repos that came with fc4 yum and set up 
>the dag compatable repos with apt. I update with yum, well actually I use the 
>smart installer which uses yum and the GUI for smart is the smart-gui. For 
>locating more programs I use the other set repos on apt which I use the gui 
>synaptic. Thats probably not the greatest thing to do but ccrma is the sound 
>expert and dag has a lot of nice programs and they aren't compatable with the 
>base update repos so caution is in order. I'm more into image manipulation 
>than sound stuff but sound is important too so I'm more or less just 
>tinkering with the ccrma sound stuff.
>Not sure if upgrading to FC4 from FC3 is the way to go or if a fresh install 
>of FC4 would be better? But I do like FC4 much better than when I tested out 
>FC3.
>jb 
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>On Tue October 18 2005 6:50 pm, frank at mogosystems.com wrote:
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>>Did you upgrade to fc4 or did you do a clean install. I am still at fc3 and
>>would prefer to upgrade. I have been unable to install rosegarden either.
>>Heck I can't even get Jack and Alsa going.
>>
>>On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:20 , jb <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> sent:
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>>>I would like to get rosegarden installed on fc4 but it seems there is a
>>>GCC problem of some sort that GCC problem? Never had much luck with the
>>>ccrma repo for some reason either. I bet in a little while there will be
>>>something solid for fc4 and rosegarden using yum or smart. I think jazz++
>>>is currently more or less just a SuSE app? Anyway, I went through and
>>>installed a bunch of multimedia stuff with the smart installer and now
>>>mid files work with quite a few players, still not kmid but I have a
>>>choice. Unfortunately I don't know which install did the trick. The only
>>>one I know for sure is the xmms-midi did the trick for xmms mid support.
>>>I know mplayer is working now plus xmms and a couple others and that is
>>>plenty good enough for now. If anyone has success with installing
>>>rosegarden on fc4 I would be interested in getting that going.
>>>jb
>>>
>>>On Sat October 15 2005 1:13 pm, frank at mogosystems.com wrote:
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>>>>Have you tried installing a sequencer program like RoseGarden or Jazz++?
>>>>
>>>>Frank M
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