Howdy all.
I checked with Ant offlist, to make sure someone had, and went around
yesterday to see what I could do to help him out. Ant's a programmer,
with a CPIT degree, earning from PHP. Brand new to Linux, but a most
worthy convert.
Status:
Anthony Brown wrote:
Hello All,
This is my first email to you, my name is Ant by the way.
I would like to know who could help me setup my computer for music
production?
software installed:
Redhat with Planet-CCRMA kernel,
The above is enhanced for midi processing, & installed as per
instrustions, running well..
Ardour,
Rosegarden4,
Jack
These too are good quality studio free/openware, running well but
subject to limited RAM (128MB) so can crash given work. Driver modules
for the sound card all look correct, with the midi port picked up by the
s/w. We had sound in from mic socket & out of spkrs, so it's a software
problem rather than hardware.
I can get sound to work, but need some help with getting the programs to do
what I want...
Manuals have been read, so I know what can be done and sort of how to do it,
but I get stuck in some
places...
Diagnosis:
RedHat9 had been modified, as per instructions, but the expertise for
final tweaks is absent / OS damaged..
The kernel upgrade packaging used apt-get, and seems to have broken the
RH packaging subsystem. Installing any more packages is problematic,
because RH is now complaining about missing libraries & not offering up
how to find them - e.g. MC unobtainable at present. The original
libraries could have been replaced, it seems.
If it sounds like I know what I am talking about, then I am sorry.. I don't.
All I can offer is $50 and a couple of beers to someone who can come over
for 2-3 hours and help me
get this going.
Apologies if the email is too long,
Take Care
:Ant
Solution:
Reinstall is probably the simplest option.
To enhance this we need to find someone here onlist who has ever
connected a sythesiser/keyboard through a midi port under Linux, please.
And what distro did you use?
Midi seems to be a common enough function, and I'd recommend using the
simplest s/w & most uptodate OS possible, to get it going in test mode,
before considering more specialist combinations.
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- Anyone worked with Zend? Ant could easily be persuaded to dual-boot
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security. :-)
hth,
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