[Rosegarden-user] Fwd: A few questions about Rosegarden...........

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

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Subject: A few questions about Rosegarden...........
Date: Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 11:50
From: "Mike Rose" <mik...@uk...>
To: ca...@al...

Hello Chris
Sorry I've emailed you directly rather than posting to the Rosegarden
 list as at the moment I am getting my posts fired back for some
reason..something thinks my emails are Spam...any ideas would be most
appreciated..I just don't know why I can't send an email to
rosegarden-user@ - I've just tried emailing the rosegarden-user-admin@
 and that also has been sent back to me undelivered today ..MMMM......I
 think the mail server thinks I am some spammer or something!

If you could include these questions below on the next R.G mail post I
would be really grateful. I am istill nvestigating why my mail is being
sent back....it's probably something stupid on my part.

PS Rosegarden is great.....so well thought out.

Here are my various questions - thanks - Mike Rose:

Hi there

I recently installed Rosegarden and it's got a great interface and a
 nice feel - well done guys . I must admit it was hard work getting it
 all to work at first as I am a newbie to Linux ....many might have
 given up who were less experienced. It's worth it once you perserve
 though!

I Was thinking, Is there any way I distributable CD could be built that
(like Knoppix )
that someone could just bung into their PC where it runs a music distro
and Rosegarden with  all the plugs and copes with detecting  variety of
popular audio
pci cards ( say audiophile 24/96 for example / Edirol UA20 USB ) ? I do
appreciate hard disk recording needs a hard drive therefore one might
install R.G to a hard drive ....it's just I think
people would be more inclined to try it out if they didn't need to set
 up dual boot system. I've had a few problems in the past setting up
 dual boot and maybe it's me but I've had two installations go belly up
 when trying dual boot...it could be just back luck / knackered hard
 drives rather than anything to do with the Master Boot Record
 alteration e.t.c I I think your software deserves to be tried out on
 as many machines as possible - having a CD you could boot into Linux
 with R.G would be a great way of spreading the good word.

I can see problems in this idea already ( i.e. NTFS/Fat compatibility )
 so sorry if I am asking a dumb question that has already been covered
 in the past! I found it quite hard trying to understand what ALSA was
 / Jack....but I did get it working and it was very satisfying.
 Hopefully someone needs to write a review for Sound on Sound about
 Rosegarden when it releases v1.

I also had an Edirol UA20 USB Midi / Audio interface I tried to get
running with Rosegarden but never got it to work properly ( the midi
 side of it anyway -
the audio worked ok)....in those situations it's a little difficult to
know what to do to get help to sort it out ( mind you I didn't email
 you all  ) - any tips on where I might look for sorting this problem
 out?. Has anyone got midi and audio working together on a USB external
 card (ie one box provides both midi and audio) ? I was using the
 Fedora Core 2 and Planet CCRMA installation at the time. In the end I
 went back to my Soundblaster live.......

I am really impressed with all your efforts.....Rosegarden and the
 LADSPA plug ins are really good combination . I can see Rosegarden 
 making inroads...you have the best interface of all the sequencers
 hands down. MIke

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