I've been using
ubuntustudio for some time with Rosegarden and not had to do
anything much more than configure Jack. Mind you, the stuff I do
is pretty light weight.
I've also just downloaded and installed the latest 11.10 and man
am I getting frustrated. Although Rosgarden and all the soft
synths seem to work fine so far, however, the default XFCE
interface sucks. Have been playing around with Unity and trying to
configure it to my liking and that is the primary source of my
frustration. Unity is not very configurable but it does have
potential. I liked the way compiz and desktop cube worked in terms
of task and desktop switching on earlier versions but I've had no
success with that on versions 11.04 and 11.10. All this messing
around, adding and removing desktop packages has resulted in a
useless system so I'm re-installing from ground up with the hope
that what I learned the first time around will get me to a better
place.
Frank
On 11-10-16 12:18 PM, Ian Gardner wrote:
Hello
all,
Just
upgraded my kubuntu to the latest release, and to my
astonishment the ubuntu vanilla kernel seems capable of
doing a reasonable job rosegarden+jack+qsynth type
audio. This is with jack in RT mode with the default
fairly conservative settings. I'm not trying to do
almost-zero latency audio work here, just trying to play
a non-trivial midi file (carnival of the animals as it
happens), and it sounds ... well, fine really.
This
is the first time I've experienced anything other than
practically useless rg/qsynth performance on a vanilla
kernel (ubuntu version). First time I've not had to
immediately try to compile my own low latency/high
resolution/pre-emptive kernel after an upgrade just to
use Rosegarden to play a midi file. I'm actually quite
happy about this :-)
I
don't follow kernel development that closely - have
things been done in kernel v3 to improve
latency/resolution/preemption of the vanilla version
does anyone know? I guess to do proper pro audio work
you still need to roll your own rt or low latency
kernel, but it would be nice if the bog standard kernel
just played nicely with rosegarden out of the box, for
the casual user.
Of
course there are plenty of reasons never to put yourself
through the potential hell of a distribution upgrade
with (k)ubuntu, but for once, for me at least,
kernel-midi-rubbishness doesn't seem to be one of them.
Unless
I'm alone in my experience with previous vanilla kernels
and rosegarden, and you've all been happily using
vanilla kernels and rosegarden together for years, in
which case ignore me and carry on as you were :-)
Cheers,
Ian.
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