Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Controlling external synths (fwd)

[Martin S. <mc...@as...>]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, psykx.out wrote:
> The way I see this is a two or three stage programming operation.
> 
> 1. All midi data that is sent out the midi out on a hardware synth
> should be recorded in variable set out in the same way as a
> sequencer track already is.

This might be feasible from a keyboard-synth, with a good front-panel
interface. However my external synth is a rack-mount box, with very
limited front-panel controls for configuration. As such, it is very
tedious and difficult to do configuration from the front-panel. So the
idea of having to set up the synth from its front panel, so that I
could then export those settings to Rosegarden, isn't very appealing
to me. Roland expects people to use an external computer to control
this synth, and they provide software for this. However that software
doesn't run under Linux.

Even if this were convenient, the parameters that one can set on this
synth, run to 16 pages of tables in small-print in the manual, and I
imagine that having Rosegarden send the whole state at the start of
each playback would be prohibitively slow.

I would thus prefer to have a GUI on the computer, that would allow me
both to interactively configure the synthesizer, and to specify which
of the configured parameters should be sent to Rosegarden for
subsequent playbacks.

Martin