The Rosegarden MIDI Sequencer [LWN.net]

The Rosegarden MIDI Sequencer

Posted Jul 22, 2006 22:08 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793)
Parent article: The Rosegarden MIDI Sequencer

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While I can understand the lack of support for "problem" things like mp3 in linux, how is it possible that a modern linux distibution like (K)Ubuntu Dapper doesn't setup MIDI sound right?

I did made a basic music editor in windows many long years ago (for Windows 95, if I remember right) with MIDI playback and it wasn't that hard. I'm sure the same program would run on modern Windows system, because I used the standard multimedia Windows API.

How can it be a modern Linux hasn't got MIDI right after all this years??!!
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Conclusion, the program seems interesting, but I got no sound and have much more things to do than having to read all over alsa, jack, timidity and rosegarden to fix the system config.

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The Rosegarden MIDI Sequencer

Posted Jul 23, 2006 1:51 UTC (Sun) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

Well, ended reading what I didn't wanted to and found out I don't really need timidity/fluisynth or jack. All I needed was finding a sound font file and use asfxload on it (on my emu10k1 sound card).

I don't take nothing of my runt, though.