Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-22 Thread Vladimir Savic
D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Timidity is the least intrusive option. Well, you have a point. His thinking was that for people who have one, the asfxload route is the best thing to try first. It is, and I can agree with that, but on second

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-22 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:56:23 +0200 Vladimir Savic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Timidity is the least intrusive option. Well, you have a point. His thinking was that for people who have one, the asfxload route is

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-22 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote: Made up my mind... Timidity*! It's old - it's everywhere. It's easy installable. Yup, and the more I think about it, the more it does make sense to focus on one thing that works for everybody, even if it isn't the best thing for anybody. Trying

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-22 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Really the timidity might be a required or recommended package but the soundfont has to be the distro's choice even if it is blech! True, but if the Ubuntu people really do whatever hacking is required to get TiMidity to use the soundfont, we

[Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread Vladimir Savic
This one goes to Michael, I think... Since you're in charge of documentation, I'd like to open discussion about what you call Making noise by default. Nowdays the situation has improved in many ways regarding MIDI on linux. My expectation was that KDE4 developers would eventually make midi sounds

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Monday 21 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote: We have wiki now. Maybe we could make general guidelines on the easiest way of setting up various distribution to play something. Either the wiki, or add a new mini-tutorial to the series I started during this release cycle. Arguments for a wiki

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread Vladimir Savic
D. Michael McIntyre wrote: On Monday 21 April 2008, Vladimir Savic wrote: We have wiki now. Maybe we could make general guidelines on the easiest way of setting up various distribution to play something. Either the wiki, or add a new mini-tutorial to the series I started during this

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:39:29 +0200 Vladimir Savic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one goes to Michael, I think... Since you're in charge of documentation, I'd like to open discussion about what you call Making noise by default. Nowdays the situation has improved in many ways regarding MIDI on

Re: [Rosegarden-devel] First impressions

2008-04-21 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Monday 21 April 2008, Shelagh Manton wrote: Timidity is the least intrusive option. Well, you have a point. His thinking was that for people who have one, the asfxload route is the best thing to try first. It is, and I can agree with that, but on second thought, let's look at the first