From: Alexandre P. <av...@al...> - 2003-04-12 17:20:12
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Greetings, Is it possible to write notes from vkeybd? If so, then wht do I have to connect it to in the ALSA Patch Bay or Kaconnect? External MIDI 0? I have SBLive at the moment only :-( -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: av...@al... |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-04-12 18:05:28
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On Saturday 12 Apr 2003 5:19 pm, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Is it possible to write notes from vkeybd? Yes. > If so, then wht do I have to connect it to in the ALSA Patch Bay or > Kaconnect? Nothing. You can do it from within Rosegarden, and in fact I think=20 you probably have to. Assuming you're using the latest Rosegarden from CVS: start up vkeybd=20 (before or after Rosegarden, doesn't matter), then in RG go to the=20 configuration dialog, select the Sequencer page and the Recording tab=20 and then select the vkeybd device in the MIDI Record Device dropdown. The record device will have some tortuous kind of name -- I've just=20 tried it and on my system it's called "MIDI software input (130:0=20 Virtual Keyboard (read))" -- I think I should probably simplify that=20 a bit! And I guess now I describe it, the procedure for changing the=20 record device is a little overwrought. Anyway having selected that, just close the configuration dialog and=20 start recording. Make sure the track you're recording onto is set to=20 your usual play device, so you can actually hear it. The procedure for Rosegarden 0.8.5 should be similar, though with=20 different device names; I think it should work with either. I'm just=20 describing the CVS version because it's what I have in front of me. Chris |
From: Alexandre P. <av...@al...> - 2003-04-14 07:50:21
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:00:46 +0000 Chris Cannam <ca...@al...> wrote: > On Saturday 12 Apr 2003 5:19 pm, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > Is it possible to write notes from vkeybd? > > Yes. > > > If so, then wht do I have to connect it to in the ALSA Patch Bay > > or Kaconnect? > > Nothing. You can do it from within Rosegarden, and in fact I > think you probably have to. > > Assuming you're using the latest Rosegarden from CVS: start up > vkeybd (before or after Rosegarden, doesn't matter), then in RG go > to the configuration dialog, select the Sequencer page and the > Recording tab and then select the vkeybd device in the MIDI Record > Device dropdown. That's the way I did it. The only difference is that vkeybd links to 129:0, not to 130:0. So when I push Record button, it starts recording in a few seconds. Then I enter some notes in vkeybd and hit the Stop bitton in RG. As soon as I do it, the pink growing line disappears completely. BTW, if you remember me posting a message about RG being not able to insert a WAV track. Recently I went to RG's Configuration dialog and in Seqencer tab I saw: Sequencer status: MIDI ok, no audio. For now it is the same. See attached text file for details. -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: av...@al... |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-04-14 08:52:55
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Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > So when I push Record button, it starts recording in a few seconds. > Then I enter some notes in vkeybd and hit the Stop bitton in RG. As > soon as I do it, the pink growing line disappears completely. Hmm. If the pink segment disappears completely, that means that no events were recorded. When you enter the notes with vkeybd, do you hear them being played at the same time? If the track you're recording onto is set to an output device that works, then you should. > Sequencer status: MIDI ok, no audio. For now it is the same. See > attached text file for details. The "detailed status" available from the configuration dialog only shows MIDI status at the moment -- audio diagnostics don't appear there yet. So from the output you sent (which all looks fine) it's impossible to tell whether JACK simply wasn't compiled in, failed to start up for some reason, started up but failed to contact a running server etc. I have a few things I need to tweak with that status report. Chris |
From: Alexandre P. <av...@al...> - 2003-04-14 08:56:48
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:52:11 +0100 Chris Cannam <ca...@al...> wrote: > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > So when I push Record button, it starts recording in a few > > seconds. Then I enter some notes in vkeybd and hit the Stop > > bitton in RG. As soon as I do it, the pink growing line > > disappears completely. > > Hmm. If the pink segment disappears completely, that means that > no events were recorded. > > When you enter the notes with vkeybd, do you hear them being > played at the same time? If the track you're recording onto is > set to an output device that works, then you should. I'll try a bit later. Thank you for your comments! > > > Sequencer status: MIDI ok, no audio. For now it is the same. See > > attached text file for details. > > The "detailed status" available from the configuration dialog only > shows MIDI status at the moment -- audio diagnostics don't appear > there yet. So from the output you sent (which all looks fine) > it's impossible to tell whether JACK simply wasn't compiled in, > failed to start up for some reason, started up but failed to > contact a running server etc. Dou mean that I need JACK running to insert a WAV-track? -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: av...@al... |
From: Richard B. <bo...@bo...> - 2003-04-14 09:08:16
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On Monday 14 April 2003 09:56, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Dou mean that I need JACK running to insert a WAV-track? Yes. At the moment the status isn't very clear i.e. the "Insert into Composition" button shouldn't really be available. Plus this action always inserts the audio in a new track at the bottom of the Composition - unless you scroll down manually you might just miss it. Perhaps more sensible behaviour for "Insert into Composition" would be to add it to the selected track at cursor position. There's nothing wrong with putting an audio segment on a non-audio track, it just won't play. There's a few things we could with "current track" actually - like always make sure that the currently selected track is visible for instance. Plus audio file drag and drop (another way of inserting audio into a Composition) is broken. This should probably be encapsulted in a bug report. B |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-04-14 09:18:41
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Richard Bown wrote: > This should probably be encapsulted in a bug report. Somewhere between encapsulated and catapulted? Chris |
From: Richard B. <bo...@bo...> - 2003-04-14 09:25:57
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On Monday 14 April 2003 10:14, Chris Cannam wrote: > Richard Bown wrote: > > This should probably be encapsulted in a bug report. > > Somewhere between encapsulated and catapulted? Insulted and Encapsulated more like. I think I was charmed by the initial "Dou". R. |
From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-04-14 09:12:11
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Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Dou mean that I need JACK running to insert a WAV-track? Yeah. I think so anyway. I guess the principle is that since you can't listen to it without JACK, you might as well not be able to insert it without JACK either. I could be mistaken though. Chris |
From: Alexandre P. <av...@al...> - 2003-04-14 10:43:26
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:07:48 +0100 Chris Cannam <ca...@al...> wrote: > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > Dou mean that I need JACK running to insert a WAV-track? > > Yeah. I think so anyway. I guess the principle is that since > you can't listen to it without JACK, you might as well not be > able to insert it without JACK either. OK, then I understand... -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: av...@al... |