Re: [Rosegarden-devel] stupid question

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 05:31 am, Chris Cannam wrote:

> all bad on the PCI card either.  These cards also do zero-latency
> monitoring, which I assume is handy if you're recording -- recording
> from external sources is the one thing I almost never do.

Thanks for the info.  As soon as I get a few things settled, I'm going to go 
shopping for one of those things.  This mixer nonsense is driving me nuts, 
and it has rendered my soundcard all but useless.

Incidentally, on this subject...  I tried RG on Mom's new computer.  She's a 
total computer newbie who's been studiously avoiding these things for years, 
but she finally found some reason to get online.  Dad and I set her up with a 
1.3 GHz box.  Nothing fancy, but still slightly more respectable than my old 
computer.  The audio is on-board i810/ac97, which I seem to remember is more 
or less equivalent to my ens1371.

I fired up Jack, Rosegarden, and QSynth.  All the combination was good for was 
producing flatulence.  The xruns were rampant, and the audio quality dismal.

I think, therefore, that the reason it took me so long to be able to do 
anything with any of these various Jack-related flummies was indeed that my 
computer wasn't fast enough.  The only reason I got any use out of RG at all 
before this new box was because I had a Roland Sound Canvas to use for making 
noise.

Since she doesn't have an external sequencer, and no on-board synth, 
Rosegarden is absolutely useless for everything except pure notation editing 
on that box.

Not really a big deal, since she's tone deaf anyway.  It's just that I didn't 
make a very good impression showing her what I've been working on.  :)

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