On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > further. There is another free sequencer type program for X > that I found confusing and not generally useful, but someone > else may. It's called Rosegarden. >
After doing some more research, I found a nasty memory leak in jazz :-(. Too bad, I liked the interface! I have gotten a little used to Rosegarden and, although it lacks features, it does play reliably. I also found that it maintains playing speed very well. Other linux X-MIDI software seem to slow down when you do anything in X! (like move a window!) > There's a reference URL at: > > http://www.digiserve.com/ar/linux-snd/ > > This has many links to useful places for Linux sound! > > One thing about that HOWTO, though. I have a true MPU-401 > capable card, so according to the HOWTO and the Readme.cards > in the kernel sources, I shouldn't have any problems > enabling this _and_ the audiotrix pro. But the mpu-401 > driver complains about a conflict. Also, the 2.0.12 kernel This still happens, but without the MPU-401 support, I don't have MIDI capabilities. It looks like the MPU-401 option is required for MIDI device support with the audiotrix pro. This is a funky card and I have lots of hoops to jump through to get it to work corrctly under DOS/WIN too. More on that later ... > does not have these sound drivers available as modules! I As near as I can tell, this stuff gets compiled into the sound.o module and not the kernel. Anybody know for sure? > think I'm going to recompile the kernel without the MPU-401 > driver and see what happens. I have a few other things to As I said, I tried it without the MPU-401 part and no midi. Strangely enough, I couldn't get the MPU-401 device to initialize correctly, though. I got the same conflict message. But then I used the USS/Linux driver demo to test the board, it worked! So I unloaded it and reloaded sound.o, and bingo: MPU-401 midi device listed in /dev/sndstat! Rosegarden seems to be able to use the wave table blaster periodically as well! > do first, but I should get to this this weekend. I may have > other news on MIDI/Sound stuff by then as well. I'll gladly > share it with the list if it seems useful. I found the USS/Linux web site that has a handful of tools on its web pages. I was unable to access these tools so Dev at USS/Linux emailed them to me! He's a really nice guy who's interested in free software. He's using a hacked up slackware distribution for his internal purposes and I turned him on to Debian. He said he'd consider upgrading, but he has a lot of stuff to do first. I'll keep on him! He also said that he would give me the sources to his MIDI apps so I could debianize them! They currently don't work with the USS/Lite sound.o module (at least they don't for me), so I'll have to take a look at getting them to be more generally useful, but they work pretty well. They have the timing problem I mentioned above, which needs to be worked out. They also don't give per track options for input/output device selection, which I need. I'll stay on top of this as much as I can, but I'm really behind in so many things that it may take a while. I'm getting ready to move half way across the world in three weeks from now! I think this is an area that needs more attention than I'm currently capable of giving it, but I'm the one in need, so I guess I get the job ... Thanks! Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *******************************************************************************
