Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden-user Digest, Vol 65, Issue 7

[D. M. M. <mic...@ro...>]

On Wednesday, November 02, 2011, Al Thompson wrote:

> Do you have audio output from the synth going somewhere that you can hear
> it??

This is especially easy to check with ZynAddSubFX.  Just click on the piano 
keyboard in the ZynAddSubFX window, and you should see a key light up in blue, 
and hear a note play.  If that's not working, you're never going to hear 
anything from Rosegarden either.

> Do you have MIDI from rosegarden connected to the MIDI input of the synth?

Once ZynAddSubFX is definitely playing, the most basic, generic, default setup 
out of the box in Rosegarden should have everything playing through "General 
MIDI Device" by default.  You want to go into Studio -> Manage MIDI Devices... 
and change "General MIDI Device" so that it's sending its data through 
ZynAddSubFX instead of whatever else is in there.  ZynAddSubFX isn't a General 
MIDI synth, of course, but going this route would typically be the least 
complicated and most immediate way to experience some quick gratification.  
Once you get one thing working, everything else should fall into place little 
by little from there.

Unfortunately, the perennial "my sound is busted" issue has always been 
Rosegarden's most annoying problem, and there is still nothing decent we can 
do about it from inside Rosegarden after all these long years of development.  
Sound on Linux is just a crock, and every new thing they invent to try to make 
the problem better just makes everything that much worse.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre