Re: [Rosegarden-user] Re: which linux dist is best for rosegarden?

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

On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 10:07 pm, Arthur Dodd wrote:
> Yeah, I did read that already actually. I assumed that since it
> lists all the instruments already (acoustic grand piano, acoustic
> guitar, etc 128 of 'em) that it has on-board synth already.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it" has an on-board synth, but neither 
Rosegarden nor your Delta does.  Rosegarden shows the standard 
General MIDI patch set by default, on the assumption that the default 
configuration features a General MIDI device plugged in to a MIDI 
port.  I take it that's not the case here.

You will either need a separate soft synth or a hardware MIDI device 
plugged in to your card's MIDI out.  For a soft synth, one 
possibility is the QSynth/fluidsynth combination (see qsynth.sf.net) 
which uses soundfonts and can easily be driven from Rosegarden.


Chris