I have my electronic drum kit on one side of the room, and my desktop bristling with USB, MIDI, and audio patch cables on the other side.
It finally dawned on me that instead of getting a real laptop and transferring all that stuff over to the drum side of the room, it would be cheaper, faster, and neatly efficient to throw a basic Linux install on an old laptop that has a pitiful processor but a pretty good screen. Running Rosegarden via ssh -X works quite well. If I want to drum along with Youtube, I have to run a different browser in the remote session. Firefox doesn't play nice. "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." Fine. I installed Chrome. (Yuck. I hate Chrome.) All that's left is controlling JACK via the laptop. I can't manually make and break MIDI and audio connections with this rig. I could go with, uh... I forget, but there's an app that lets you share the same desktop over a network connection. I could use that, and just work with the same desktop session with all the same running doodads. I could, but it's more elegant and geekier to run Rosegarden with the X server on a different computer. Windows can't do that! I know there are folks around who have fooled with stuff like this. LTSP? I thought I'd drop this here and invite discussion on other things I should try to maximize the results I can get from this method. Also, I've been eyeing the drum trainer software from Roland. It gets pretty good reviews, and it would probably be helpful. My original drum module (Alesis DM7X) had lots of helpful new drummer features that my improved module (Alesis DM10) lacks. I could get that functionality from the Roland software, but when I took one look at Windows 10 that someone in the family had installed on that old junk laptop, it was very easy for me to choose the "use the entire disk" option and wipe that crap out for good. I really just hate Windows, and I'm a truck driver not a programmer or an office worker, so it doesn't matter. I have no reason to use that crap for anything, ever, and I'm totally fine. So, the obvious line of thought is: I should add some stuff to Rosegarden to give it drum trainer features. I haven't made any progress even brainstorming that yet, but it's on my back burner. Instant timing feedback, playalong tracks with feedback to show you what notes you botched, and other stuff such as what is found in the Roland software. I don't remotely intend to clone it, but it would be nice to have help locking down my timing, which is pretty lousy at the moment. I thought I'd just throw that last line of thought out there too, and invite discussion. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
