[TriLUG] MIDI Software Synths?

[Carl Crider]

are you using a low-latency kernel?  are you using JACK audio?

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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 <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com> 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
> <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com> 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
> >
> >
>
>
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Carl Crider
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