Rosegarden

Mr. McCoy and Mr. McIntyre:

Thank you for the responses. I am not at a place where I can "Reply", so your
replies are not exactly duplicated.

> ... why would you need an enterprise-based distro 
>for music production, especially when there are customized distributions 
>for multimedia like CCRMA or Agnula that have the appropriate kernels?

I need to upgrade because this machine is not only a personal home machine, but
I use it for testing before I apply changes at work, where most of the servers
run Tao.

>You *can* run Rosegarden without low-latency, BTW, especially if you are 
>just using it for MIDI and score composition.  You'll definitely want 
>low-latency if you are recording digital audio.  

That's pretty much what I was wanting to hear. The links you provided were very
informative also as to what Low Latency really is.

Thank you very much.

>Let's step back a minute and find out why you think you need a low latency 
>kernel in the first place.  It may well be that you do, but it's possible you 
>do not.  I've spoken with you before, but I don't remember your situation.

The general impression I have received from all that I read, starting with my
first introduction to Rosegarden, was that Low Latency was required. I sort of
blindly followed the path of obtaining and installing RG through CCRMA, and
along with that, the CCRMA low latency kernel. 

>What are you trying to do with Rosegarden?  What kind of hardware do you have 
>already?  If, for example, you are focused entirely on MIDI, do not care 
>about running soft synths, and you have a decent MIDI-capable soundcard like 
>an SB Live! or similar, then you really have no need for low latency audio 
>stuff at all.

>I seem to recall you're focused on MIDI, but you have a cheap soundcard in a 
>very slow computer, and you have to run QSynth.  Is that right?  In that 
>case, I submit that a $30 SB Live from Wal-Mart could solve all your problems 
>tidily.

Actually, I am focused on MIDI and scoring. The machine is not all that bad,
1.7Ghz, 256MB ram, and an SBLive card. It's not a speed machine, and more RAM
would always help, but.... I was glad to learn that Wal-Mart still sells the SB
Live, as I was looking for a second one from the place I purchased the original,
and it appeared the card was no longer being sold.

So all in all, I have learned quit a bit from this thread. I feel comfortable
upgrading, knowing that RG will probably still install on Tao (a mostly RH9
dependency OS). I don't know the internal specifics of Low Latency, but now know
what it deals with.

Thank you both so much for time, knowledge and responses.

Steve Campbell

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