On 26/01/13 19:35, Holger Marzen wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Abrolag wrote: >
[...] > I encounter that's made with Rosegarden or other Open Source > Software avoids instruments that need exact timings. Sure it's so general? Isn't this doable by setting JACK latency low? I thinking of Rosegarden doing only midi and hooking instruments (e.g. fluidsynth) through alsa-midi etc. I tried a very quick experiment, not at all my usual music, but just the kind which, maybe, wants exact timing and fast attacks and it seems more than decent, and everything seemed to work ok. Lorenzo. PS. I can share the experiment if anyone is interested, but it's really cheesy stuff... I don't know if > it's caused by lacking/faulty latency compensation. But it's an > important thing, at least for me. It's easy to imagine that many > musicians tried Open Source software and ran away when they noticed that > it doesn't sound as exact and doesn't get the groove as in commercial > sowftare. > > That's bad. > > Unfortunately I can't do C++ and doesn't understand the internal > concepts of Rosegarden. But I think it's damn important that > > - we get the off-by-one latency compensation bug in subgroups fixed > - we get the missing "audio tracks don't get latency compensated at all" > feature added > - we get a positive/negative time offset in milliseconds per track > added or at least a milliseconds entry field, so I could delay every > track by 100 ms and use e.g. 90 ms as a substitue for -10 ms. > > That would Rosegarden make an outstanding DAW. Its track concept and its > matrix and drum editors are already very good. It's (for me) much more > important to get these bugs fixed than to add LV2 plugin capability or > audio automation. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Rosegarden-user mailing list > Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
