Re: [Rosegarden-user] Basic MIDI issue

[Ken K. <sub...@ga...>]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:17 -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: 
> On Friday 27 February 2009, Ken Klaser wrote:
> > I'm getting the well-known Jack error on Rosegarden startup.
> >  For the purposes of a quick tryout, I didn't think it would matter
> >  that much, but I was wrong.
> 
> No you weren't.  You're trying to play a digital piano with Rosegarden.  You 
> don't need JACK for that at all.  

Interesting!  Always appreciate it when someone points out my error, or
at least my misunderstanding about how there is more than one way to do
something! 

> JACK is for reproducing audio tracks, synth 
> plugins, and external soft synths, but you don't need to fool with any of 
> that at this point.

Okay, thanks!

I had written a long message back to you, and the course of writing it
out, the various thoughts logic caused me to do some more reading, and to streamline my
own questions.  I decided to try the laptop on the computer again this
morning to play with it a bit.  I struggled a little at first with the MIDI setup, but after
a few false starts, came to a Rosegarden setting that gave great sound during
recording!  

Sometimes I imagine having invisible computer helpers all around,
and they magically repaired everything.  Of course, what I really mean is that
other humans wrote (back) and by doing so they helped a great deal!

My "Basic MIDI issue" is now solved. I can't say precisely what it was that was
wrong on the original setup, that first 30 minutes was a little
overwhelming and frustrating, and as such is something of a blur at this point.

Rosegarden, what a beautiful name!

Thank you so much,
Ken