Re: [Rosegarden-user] Sound help

[Peter K. <pet...@gm...>]

Hi Allie,

Click on the little keyboard icon with the green thing covering one
side of it, or another way is to click on "Studio" -> "Manage MIDI devices".
You should see "128:0 TiMidity port 0 (write)". Click on that and see if it
helps.

Normally on a linux distro with the timidity package installed,
the distro maintainers have set things up so that there's what's called
a "timidity server process" running in the background, which listens for
MIDI messages from Rosegarden (once you've selected TiMidity as the
output port for Rosegarden), and that timidity server process "plays" the
sound to your soundcard (you don't need MIDI support in
your soundcard, timidity does the work of translating MIDI to PCM
that your soundcard understands).

For your recording question, do you mean audio or MIDI recording?
If you have your MIDI controller (piano keyboard) hooked up via USB
to your computer, the ALSA subsystem should automatically have
loaded the driver for usb-midi and so another "port" should have shown
up in the above "Manage MIDI devices" dialog window. Select that instead
of the TiMidity port (it should have the word "duplex" in the description),
and then click record and what you play on the USB-attached MIDI controller
should get recorded. It works fairly well.

Cheers,
Peter.


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Allie Queen <all...@ro...>wrote:

> I just currently downloaded rosegarden and I am having problems hearing my
> music. I opened a file, it showed that it was there and when I press play no
> sound comes out! I also can't get anything to record.
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