From: <k-...@tr...> - 2014-08-11 01:23:21
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I need a brain alignment for this - realworld midi synthesizer connected via USB - it is also connected to an amplified speaker on its own - set up as best I can in Qjackctl - set up rosegarden to use synth as midi input & output - arm a rosegarden track for recording from midi device - play a few notes - can hear the notes through speakers - the new segment is being created - the track is set up as General-Midi #1 - play back the segment and hear the synth in the speakers up to now no problem, it looks like someting is working Now I reassign an other already existing segment from ZynAdd to GeneralMidi #3 but cannnot for the life of me hear that segment coming out the synth on playback (doesn't matter what GeneralMidi # I give it to. What am I missing? And there'a secondary question here if I ever get it all together: can the synth play back maybe a dozen midi segments at the same time? thanks |
From: <k-...@tr...> - 2014-08-24 15:51:40
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I have a collection of about 50 rosegarden projects made under Suse using the last few releases over the last year or two. All of them make very heavy use of ZynAddSubFX sounds pulled directly from that application as a synth in its own right as well as ZASF the Zyn dssi plugin. What this means is that I might have a track that is typically assigned to ZASF plugin #176-Guitar. And now is the time when the maestro signals: let it all hit the fan :-) While tinkering with an upgraded Zyn (2.4.4 i think) package in the Mageia-5alpha2 distro I ran into the problem of a new, much improved AND MUCH BIGGER bank-set. According to the zyn devs. the appropriate way to handle these has historically been alphabetical or else trouble looms ahead when the bank-set is changed ..and this is exactly what has happened *as far as I can determine* with my at best barely average skills. The short of the long is that in my rosegarden projects ZASF plugin #176-Guitar is now #176-Pan-Flute. I do love pan flutes but this is not going to work. For the time being I can just continue using Suse but the Zyn package is sure to be upgraded there as well and very soon at that! Having to re-edit my rosegarden projects would be bad enough but what if yet another bank-set increase comes along, now that Zyn popularity is going ballistic ANYTHING is possible. For now I can just migrate the old /usr/share/zynaddsubfx/banks folder to any more recent system but in th enear future could I hope for an edit from numerical to alpha sorting please? Thanks |
From: D. M. M. <ros...@gm...> - 2014-08-25 00:16:02
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On 08/24/2014 03:51 PM, k-...@tr... wrote: > For now I can just migrate the old /usr/share/zynaddsubfx/banks folder to any more recent system but in th enear future could I hope for an edit from numerical to alpha sorting please? This sounds like a job for an external script to process .rg files and convert them from the old bank scheme to the new one. -- D. Michael McIntyre |
From: Abrolag <ab...@us...> - 2014-11-25 11:35:45
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:51:22 -0400 k-...@tr... wrote: > > I have a collection of about 50 rosegarden projects made under Suse using the last few releases over the last year or two. All of them make very heavy use of ZynAddSubFX sounds pulled directly from that application as a synth in its own right as well as ZASF the Zyn dssi plugin. > > What this means is that I might have a track that is typically assigned to ZASF plugin #176-Guitar. And now is the time when the maestro signals: let it all hit the fan :-) > > While tinkering with an upgraded Zyn (2.4.4 i think) package in the Mageia-5alpha2 distro I ran into the problem of a new, much improved AND MUCH BIGGER bank-set. According to the zyn devs. the appropriate way to handle these has historically been alphabetical or else trouble looms ahead when the bank-set is changed ..and this is exactly what has happened *as far as I can determine* with my at best barely average skills. > > The short of the long is that in my rosegarden projects ZASF plugin #176-Guitar is now #176-Pan-Flute. I do love pan flutes but this is not going to work. For the time being I can just continue using Suse but the Zyn package is sure to be upgraded there as well and very soon at that! Having to re-edit my rosegarden projects would be bad enough but what if yet another bank-set increase comes along, now that Zyn popularity is going ballistic ANYTHING is possible. > > For now I can just migrate the old /usr/share/zynaddsubfx/banks folder to any more recent system but in th enear future could I hope for an edit from numerical to alpha sorting please? > > Thanks Bit late picking up on this... My way of handling this is to maintain different sets of bank root dirs all in userspace then just select as 'default' the one I want depending on which group of projects I'm working on. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. |
From: D. M. M. <ros...@gm...> - 2014-08-11 02:55:45
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On 08/10/2014 09:23 PM, k-...@tr... wrote: > Now I reassign an other already existing segment from > ZynAdd to GeneralMidi #3 but cannnot for the life of me > hear that segment coming out the synth on playback > (doesn't matter what GeneralMidi # I give it to. > What am I missing? If you can play/record/playback on GeneralMidi #1 successfully, then #1 definitely ought to work for your ZynAdd segment, even if #3 doesn't. The simple place to start is to establish that this is indeed true. Switch it to #1 and you should hear it if you hear the other stuff on #1. > And there'a secondary question here if I ever get it all > together: can the synth play back maybe a dozen midi > segments at the same time? That totally depends on what the "realworld midi synthesizer" is. Some models are multi-timbral, some models aren't. Some models are polyphonic, some models aren't. There is enormous variety out there in the world, and the older the unit is, or the more highly specialized, the more likely it is to be limited in seemingly strange ways. -- D. Michael McIntyre |