Re: [Rosegarden-user] Looking for advice on putting together a good MIDI sound configuration

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Quoting Jim Cochrane <ml...@bu...>:

[CC'd as the list doesn't seem to like me posting to it]

> So, after this long email post, I guess my questions are: What have
> people found to work well in terms of getting good sounds on a
> MIDI-based system on Linux?  Have you gotten good results with VST
> software running on Linux with Windows emulation?  What is the quality
> of a good VST-based system in general (say, running natively on
> Windows) - can it actually provide good-quality sampled sounds?  Has
> anyone tried using Rosegarden with a Windows/VST box as an "external
> synthesizer"? Have people had much luck - getting good sounds - with
> actual MIDI keyboard/synthesizers (and, if so, how expensive was it)?
> Is there another potential solution I'm not aware of - that I've not
> mentioned?

I don't know what kind of sounds you're looking for, but I've been  
getting pretty good results from MIDI hardware.  Orchestral sounds are  
harder, as I understand it the best results on the market are either  
the high-end Kurzweil systems or VSTs, though I've had nothing but  
trouble from the latter.

This is my most recent project:

http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/and_daryil_answered_v5.mp3

Apart from the vocals, everything you hear is being performed by  
Rosegarden, albeit overdubbed onto tape, track by track.  The  
keyboards I used were:

1. Roland JV1010 (bass guitar, steel guitars) - Okay the steel isn't  
great, but it works
2. Roland M-VS1 (Solina string ensemble, miscellaneous bass synth sounds)
3. Korg Triton EX (Synth choir, Overdriven clavinet/electric lead  
sound, drums)
4. Hammond XM-1 (Hammond organ)
5. Cheetah MS-6 (one of the synth bassline)
6. Waldorf MicroWave I (digital lead, starts from 5:02)
7. Waldorf Pulse (bass synthesizer, also synth lead)
8. Home-built sampler, runs in DOS (Mellotron M400 choir)

> Thanks very much.
> Jim Cochrane
>