Anthony Brown wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support.
I will definately check out a different distribution for what I am doing, I
didn't realise redhat was old hat.
Here is a link to the synth I am using:
http://www.novationmusic.com/product.asp?id=13&Type=1&bArchive=
Nice one.
I don't have to use CCRMA, it was just something I came across that I
thought might help me, more than hinder me.
Also I'm not a very patient man, so I will try one of these distributions I
have downloaded recently.
I got: Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo, Ubunto, dynebolic, demudi and fedora 4.
Not sure what one to start with. Demudi is another specialised one for audio
(http://www.agnula.org/)
But after using CCRMA I'm not sure if I can trust it.
Useful comments / stuff re Ubuntu etc:
"This is my third Ubuntu install now, before that I ran RH9.
One of the main reasons I switched to Ubuntu was because I wanted a
distro with 2.6 kernel with proper package management. At the time,
there were 2 realistic options; Gentoo and Ubuntu. Gentoo seemed to be
too much of a fuss.
The breezy preview installed pretty smoothly. The majority of the work
however comes after the install. I keep an install log to make it easier
to tweak the install to my liking.
I took out my soundcard in favor of the one that's on the mainboard. I
found that the MIDI device was not detected properly 'out of the box';
because of this, amidi --dump did not find the default MIDI device. This
was solved after making a symbolic link (ln -s midiC1D0 midiC0D0). No
big thing here; by what I could tell this behaviour was present in the
previous release as well."
From:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/26/0333248&tid=90&tid=106
Also: http://lurker.agnula.org/message/20050916.113201.915538b7.en.html
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/herefordshire/2005-August/001122.html
http://madpenguin.org/cms/html/47/5145.html (5.10 review)
I'll repost if I manage to get any midi sound out of Ubuntu.
I will post again once I have another distribution installed.
Cool.
Thanks again for all the help,
:Ant
That's what we're here for.
Good luck, Rik
