Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Hello List again...

[Dave F. <da...@da...>]

On Monday 08 November 2004 12:22 am, Phuah Yee Keat wrote:
> Dave Fancella wrote:
> > The way Jazz works right now, it doesn't use a softsynth.  I don't know
> > if it used to be able to, but your best bet is to simplify and eliminate
> > the softsynth, using Jazz's internal synth.
>
> If my sound card does not have a hardware synth, and I do not have any
> external hardware synth, would I be able to play midi thru Jazz? Coz
> currently, in Linux, I need timidity SoftSynth to play any midi files,
> be it thru rosegarden, or pmidi.

Jazz has a synth in it, doesn't use the sound card, I don't think.  I could be 
wrong about that, though.  Hmmmm.........

> > So if you want to start hacking, I (and others here) can certainly point
> > you in a useful direction.  There's theoretically not a lot left to get
> > Jazz ported to wxWidgets 2.4, and then working on Windows, so that a
> > release could be made which would attract users and developers, which
> > would create the feedback loop necessary to get Jazz off the ground. 
> > I'll help you any way that I can, but I'm in the middle of so much stuff
> > right now, and getting enrolled into college (finally, after years of
> > denial), and then that starts in january.  Oh boy.  But yeah, I'll help
> > any way that I can, and I'm sure there are others here that will love to
> > help too.
>
> Will certainly try to spend some time with the codes to get familiar
> with it. Jazz is good stuffs, nothing comes close on Linux, Rosegarden
> is just too much for my use. I just need to play+loop some midi sequences.

If you just need to play+loop midi sequences, why don't you just use timidity 
or ecasound or something?  Just curious....  You can also render those midi 
sequences to wav or something and then loop them with other programs designed 
for such things (like Hydrogen, maybe?)

Dave

> Cheers,
> Phuah Yee Keat
>
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