are you using a low-latency kernel? are you using JACK audio? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i use the AGNULA Project's DeMuDi distro for recording, editing, sampling, and drum machine work. it all worked [for me anyway] flawlessly after installation.
www.agnula.org look into Rosegarden for composition. "closest thing to cubase for linux." http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ i do not use midi however. but i would look into the newest version of DeMudi. there is a live CD, as well as an install CD. to add, this has been the only "out of the box" distro that i have used for music that's been of any use to me. i have used Red Hat with low-latency patches, as well as Mandrake, SUSE, and Debian. DeMuDi is the Debian version of this project; they also have a Red Hat version called RehMuDi. i am intersted to hear what you come up with. keep it posted. On 12/11/05, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heh. Followup to my first message on this subject. I got > TiMidity++ working, with the help of a howto I found. But I'd still like > to know what any of you guys use out there for sequencing and composition. > > Also, what do you all do to address the issue of lag? If my 3-D games can > make me hear "KAPOW!!" at the (apparent) exact instant I click my mouse > button, why do most of my MIDI programs often suffer lag of a second or > more? If I'm chaining devices just as simply as MIDI-in -> MIDI-synth, > why do I have so much trouble getting anything LESS than 250ms of lag > between when I press a key and when I hear a note? Any pianists out there > can imagine how hard it'd be to play a song if your piano didn't make any > sound until a quarter of a second after you press a key.. > > This should be simple. Why isn't it? :-P > > Cheers, > ~Brian > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:28:44 -0500, Brian Henning > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Folks! > > Just curious if anyone out there in TriLUG land does much with MIDI > > on our favorite platform. I've been doing some looking around, and a > > lot of what I've found hasn't been encouraging. > > > > There're two main issues I currently face in wanting to get MIDI > > functionality with my current setup. One is composition tools, and so > > far I haven't even looked that far into it, because it's currently > > undermined by the second issue, which is software synths. If my onboard > > sound hardware has a hardware synth at all, it's a cinch that it sounds > > like crap, and furthermore FC4 doesn't know anything about it by default > > and I don't feel like expending the effort to get it working when I'm so > > certain the sound results will be horrid. So I'm looking for software > > synth programs, and I'm coming up very discouraged. > > Of course, there's TiMidity++, which seems to require a lot of inside > > knowledge to get working (and doesn't include a GUI by default). > > There's a few others, which all seem to have stagnated or not be geared > > toward the simple rendering of a run-of-the-mill MIDI song. > > So I ask you all. What do yous guyses use, if anything? > > > > Cheers, > > ~Brian > > > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Carl Crider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
