[nflug] Re: midi

[David Dudek]

The easiest way to go is FC3 with the Planet CCRMA patches an apps.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/planetccrma.html

-- 
Dave Dudek

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Cyber Source wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:03:06 -0400
> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: [nflug] Re: midi
> 
> 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 
>> On Tue October 18 2005 6:50 pm, frank at mogosystems.com wrote:
>> 
>>> 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:
>>> 
>>>> 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:
>>>> 
>>>>> Have you tried installing a sequencer program like RoseGarden or Jazz++?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Frank M
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