From: D. M. M. <mic...@ro...> - 2007-12-04 01:28:07
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On Sunday 02 December 2007, Bharani Prasanth wrote: > Okay let me re organize this conversation.. > > 1. In seq24 and in the pattern editor we can see hexter if we click "select > output bus" button"(assuming jack is on with hexter and seq24) . Seq24 has > changed a bit since its last version..Now it takes care of midi by itself > and does not rely on jack patch bay for making connections like in > earlier. no fuss with dssi-plugin hosts.. I have clickable MIDI routing stuff, but I don't see any way to load a synth plugin, and no way to use one without a plugin host. It probably doesn't matter for the purpose of this discussion, so long as we can agree that seq24 can send MIDI data to the Hexter synth plugin in some fashion. > sure... 5. regarding the patterns....try selecting different instruments in > hexter and playing them simultaneously...how would you do that with just > one instance..? (say Elecpiano and fatthin EP can't played at once ) the > only way we can select instrument in hexter UI by highlighting it..) Off hand, I don't see any difference between the two applications here. Different ways of getting to the same place, but you still have to run more than one instance of Hexter to play two different patches. In a Rosegarden context, off-hand, it seems like even if Hexter could receive multiple MIDI channels (and I'm not sure if DSSI even allows this sort of thing) there is no way to drive that from Rosegarden, because our instruments can only transmit to one channel. You can't use Rosegarden to make a traditional Cakewalk-style conductor track that sends controllers to multiple channels, and you wouldn't be able to recycle the same instrument/plugin pair to transmit to it on multiple channels either. You'd have to use multiple instruments and multiple instances of the plugin. > 6.Lots > of patches available for hexter and are downloadable through internet..so > classic 80's are at finger tips..but in RG I cannot record the synth audio > into RG itself like I do with Midi tracks(with instrument line out plugged > in) ..and have to use ardour instead..heck double the load.. If you can record the audio from the plugins with Ardour, then you can record it with Rosegarden too. Just keep playing with the JACK routing. I'm surprised you have to mess with it to accomplish this. I don't. I just did a test, and recorded my plugins without having to twiddle anything. Unfortunately, you don't seem to be so lucky, but my assertion still stands that if Ardour can capture the signal, Rosegarden can too. > 7.well is > there any one i can additional patches for zynaddsubfx....? i searched > everywhere can..? 8.There is never an "All in One product". Atleast this is > true with commercial stuff.. :-) Not that I've ever run across. At least it comes with a lot more patches out of the box now. -- D. Michael McIntyre |