On Wednesday 25 March 2009, Julie S wrote: > Maybe the first thing RG should do is open the MIDI manager the first time > after install with a message explaining that it needs to know where to > output sound. That is my half baked idea.
Two votes for this idea, and I'd say my votes and Chris's votes are even enough to cancel each other out completely, so this is one vote for this idea. > Yes, there is just a learning curve involved. That is just all part of > MIDI. Indeed. Though it is true that recent versions of Windows solve this problem with a built-in very cheesy sounding soft synth. I'm not opposed to the idea in principal, but inside Rosegarden itself we just can't make something that can be expected to work as reliably as the Windows synth does. The only way to guarantee a reliable built-in software synth is to do this at a far lower level than anything we can control. Really, it would have to be built straight into ALSA itself, because it has to be so low that absolutely nothing can ever get in its way and prevent it from working. Though we could conceivably still do this, and accept that less reliability is unavoidable. At the far opposite end of the spectrum from us, there's MuSE Score, which has a built in synth and built in soundfont, and that's the only mechanism it provides for playing anything. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
