[Rosegarden-user] A few newbie questions

[Steve C. <ste...@cn...>]

Sorry for the repost, my email from this server has a different full mail address.

I am definitely a newbie to Midi, but find Rosegarden very interesting.

I have Rosegarden4 working, but I am sure there is a better way to set up my machine. I am asking for suggestions for a few questions I have. I will continue on my own searching, and when I get more time, will delve further into the archives, but for now, if these are relatively easy questions for anyone, I would certainly appreciate the time and effort.

I am running a RH 9 vanilla box, with the upgraded kernel (ccrma, I believe. Sorry, but I'm not at home where the machine lives). I have, using apt-get, installed all that is necessary, and after beating up my modules.conf for a while, and figuring out alsasound needed loading, have sound.

I have a Creative Labs Live! Value card installed.

1. Can someone suggest a valid modules.conf for this setup? I'm using one that has more than necessary and when alsasound is loaded, I get errors, albeit, they are harmless. I would just like to have the simplest conf file.

2. Soundfonts are a real confusing issue for me. I have loaded the supplied Creative Labs 4MB file that came on disk, but this doesn't seem to be true to what voices it indicates. Does someone have a better suggestion for a default?

3. Soundfonts again. I find that there are a few Soundfont editors out there, and must admit they are overwhelming for someone just getting into this genre. I had considered loading multiple soundfonts to have more choices. Is there a suggestion on what the best way to do this might be?

Any help for now would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

Steve Campbell