From: Daniel M. <da...@ya...> - 2003-10-31 18:56:49
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I'm aware of Swami, which I'm told can edit SF2 files, but that seems like a rather long-winded, faffy route if I ever wanted to use a sample under RG. I'm presuming there is a softsynth that will quickly and easily let me load samples as RG instruments, without going to the hassle of creating a .sf2 file first? Any recommendations? I'm not really bothered about this personally, it's just I know that when RG hits 1.0 and I'm trying to convince my mates to switch, someone will ask how to do just that. Also, I was flicking through Linux Format today and it had a feature on that recent Linux expo in London. Rosegarden and Bownie both get a mention, and it talks of the 'weird music' they were playing to demo RG. What sort of stuff were you playing at the expo? dan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-10-31 19:13:38
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On Friday 31 Oct 2003 6:56 pm, Daniel MacDonald wrote: > Rosegarden and Bownie both get a mention, and it talks > of the 'weird music' they were playing to demo RG. It does? What does it say? Is the bit mentioning Rosegarden brief=20 enough to type out in full? I didn't think we were playing anything particularly weird, in fact. =20 We looped a sort of (cough) trancey house thing (that's just a=20 codephrase for something really trivial with deep bass in it) quite a=20 bit, and then we had a few other odds and ends including a bunch of=20 classical tunes, some most cheesy tea-time medley MIDIs that Rich had=20 picked up somewhere, and "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier". =20 We had a bit of a shortage of stuff to demo, actually -- not enough=20 time spent actually using the software lately. Chris |
From: Daniel M. <da...@ya...> - 2003-10-31 22:31:25
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> What does it say? Is the bit mentioning > Rosegarden brief > enough to type out in full? If almost stretching to a full paragraph meets your requirements for brief, then yes, it is that; but I firmly believe my knees make a nasty cracking sound when I stand because of all the years I have spent crouched on the floor on WHSmiths reading computer and music mags I have absolutely no intention to buy- hence my inability to scan/re-type the expo quote. I think my record (for a single sitting of mag browsing) peaked around the 5 hour mark one grim Saturday. To REALLY take the piss out of overly lenient local newsies, I've been tempted by those new mobiles with the inbuilt camera.. Anyway, the only other thing the article said about RG is that it should be hitting the sacred 1.0 mark soon. Speaking of releases, is 0.9.2 still on track for a release in the next few days? Some people don't trust/ don't want to bother with/ don't understand CVS and could well be thinking development has all be died on thee 'garden. As for simsam- thanks for pointing it out. I wasn't really that interested in checking it out, I'd much rather synthesise or record my own noise, but seeing as pkg-config hell is promised multiple times I can safely say I won't bother at all unless it's on CCRMA. Out of curiosity, I'm currently downloading Bownies singular MP3.com track- Jullibant. I've not heard it yet, but was RG used at all for it? dan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-11-01 12:20:12
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On Friday 31 Oct 2003 10:31 pm, Daniel MacDonald wrote: > Speaking of releases, is 0.9.2 still on track for a > release in the next few days? Not in the immediate next few days, no. Probably more like two weeks. =20 There's quite a bit of work to do on things like audio stability and=20 the controller management code. > Out of curiosity, I'm currently downloading Bownies > singular MP3.com track- Jullibant. I've not heard it > yet, but was RG used at all for it? No, it was done at least four years ago and thus predates RG4=20 altogether. I think he may have used Logic. Chris |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-10-31 19:16:24
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On Friday 31 Oct 2003 6:56 pm, Daniel MacDonald wrote: > I'm > presuming there is a softsynth that will quickly and > easily let me load samples as RG instruments, without > going to the hassle of creating a .sf2 file first? Any > recommendations? Here's one that's supposed to do that: http://simsam.sourceforge.net/ I haven't tried very hard to get it working -- last time I tried, I=20 gave up at about the point I realised it was going to try to use=20 pkg-config to locate not only JACK but ALSA and libsndfile as well. Chris |