[Rosegarden-user] Kde and rosegarden one more point.

[Eric R. <sh...@te...>]

/"1/ Did you install all required alsa packages ("apt-get install
alsa-base alsa-utils" for example).

2/ Did you run "alsaconf" as root to configure alsa for your system?

3/ Once alsa will be ok, use "alsamixer" and pump up the volume."



/There is one other important step....

4/ Run alsactl store. so that it has your settings saved at boot.

That way kmix will not have any influence over pcm and other essential controls, unless you use it.
The default start for kmix is with pcm and other controls shut off.

I find it is sometimes more usefull to just keep alsamixer running in an xterm.

.....and if using Kubuntu set kcontrol (Control Centre-Sound System)
to make kde give up control over your audio devices, I did it the draconian way and
set it to give up control after 0 seconds.

I had to do all this in Slackware and found that it sure makes things run
better in Rosegarden, it even seems to run and load things quicker. I just have an old P3 450, with lots of ram,
and Rosegarden is actually alot faster at parsing notation than Cakewalk under windows with the same processor. 
...Now I can even use Rosegarden to run midis from the net,
right out of the browser, instead of the default kmid, which is a pain to load 
and use specific soundfonts in, especially if they are not GM fonts. One that I loaded 
did not read the GM drums properly and did all sorts of wierd and wonderfull things.
Good for a laugh though. I think it was reading tuned toms as pipe organ ...wierd.
I booted it up in Rosegarden and sure enough the drums were on split tracks and needed to be reset.
Rosegarden has been great for finding and notating some obscure Brazilian and South American tunes, that I have
always wanted to arrange.

Eric