Daniel James wrote: > Hi Quentin, > >> Here is a link to a little something I cooked up just now. >> >> http://www.harleystudio.co.za/misc/midi-demo_rach.ogg > > Sounds really good, especially the piano :-) > > I'm very conscious that things like MIDI timing have to be spot-on, > even though only some people can hear the difference. Those are the > exact kind of people we're trying to reach. > > Cheers! > > Daniel
Hi Quentin, hi Daniel :) I've taken that Linux of mine, that's most unstable and downloaded http://www.classicalmidiconnection.com/cgibin/x.cgi/mid/rachmaninov/rachm1-1.mid. Started QjackCtl, Rosegarden and Qsynth using 8MBGMSFX.SF2. This is no problem, it plays, is stable and I can't hear any bad MIDI timing, resp. it might be better not to play a romantic by a sequencer, if it's possible to do it with an orchestra. The problems I've got and leastwise one Californian musician too, is that we can't work with any MIDI sequencer, because the sequencer, Fluidsynth-DSSI, Qsynth or JACK crashes. Just playing a MIDI file and setting a General MIDI Orchestra is fine. Something very simple, you don't need to be a musician to do that. Edit by using a grid or not editor C, Am, F, G. After that copy and paste it, until it has a length of 2 minutes. Do a loop range of some periods of C, Am, F, G, maybe 2 or 4 times. Let the loop range play and on a second MIDI track play for another instrument any white key on the manual, you can ride on C, Am, F, G by playing the white keys. Do this without recording for about 10 minutes, than record. Repeat this for the whole song, step by step and while doing that, change the soundfonts. I can't do that with the most stable Linux I've got. Any Linux of mine can play MIDI files, but I can't produce with any of my Linux MIDI music myself. The Californian musician, who is using Intel, is now using XP, Cubase and Halion and has no troubles, this is the evidence that his hardware isn't defect. Until now I don't have a Windows install to check if my hardware is okay or defect, but I don't think the hardware is defect. There is a general problem with MIDI for Linux. Take a look at forums for musicians, many people have those problems, don't look only at special Linux forums, where people are, that don't have such serious troubles. The other thing is, what Daniel has written. You can do hard quantized pop music, when you aren't using sample loops that has to be synced, or you won't play percussive instruments in unison. If you will do Rachmaninov without any quantize or Hip Hop with sample loops, you can get troubles. What I need for the moment is a sequencer, that is fine with doing hard quantized pop music, while there isn't the need to have perfect sync. I just have updated my BIOS and will do a last test with Qtractor and a downgraded Fluidsynth for Suse 11.0. If this test will fail, I have to find a solution without Linux. I will keep Linux for my all day work, mailing etc. and I also will test if Linux is fine with my hardware in the future, that means I will install 64 Studio 3.0 and hopefully 64 Studio 4.0 too. Cheers, Ralf
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