Re: music maker
On 29. January 2004 at 3:05PM +0100, Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should i do next? I had the same experience the three or foru times I used it. unrar is not a GNU program. IRC the argument and option ordering is stricter. You just can't stuff it anywhere like you would tar -xzvf foo.tgz or tar -f foo.tgz -xzv. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:33, Roy Pluschke wrote: On January 29, 2004 06:05 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi R.J.P, Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should i do next? Read the man page!! From man unrar After the program name comes a command and then optional switches with dashes before them. A summary of commands is included below. For a complete description, run unrar without options. therefore the command would be: unrar e -y whatever.rar the e being a command, the -y is a switch. It looks like whatever you downloaded eaqpats12_fullxyz with might have stripped the .rar extension. You might have to tack it back on. R.J.P. Dear R.J.P, Thanks for all your help. I finally got unrar to work. I did read the man page. I did ' unrar -e -y xyz. that one dash made all the diffence. Noteedit is up and running. So hopefully, that should be it. :) Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 23:36, Roy Pluschke wrote: On January 28, 2004 09:12 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi R.J.P, I got the message:- midia.cfg no such file or directory timidity can't read any configuration file pleae check /etc/timidity.cfg I have alsa installed. I shall read the noteedit website in the meantime. It seems that in testing/unstable the timidity-patches are missing, perhaps there was some licencing issue. I installed timidity a long time ago -- probably on Ham. At that time the patches that came with timidity weren't very good so I installed the eawpats myself. They are available here http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/eawpats12_full.rar You will need to unrar them (apt-get install unrar) I placed them in /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ my timidity.cfg file looks as follows # start dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ source gravis.cfg source gsdrums.cfg source gssfx.cfg source xgmap2.cfg # end That should get you running :) R.J.P. Hi R.J.P, Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should i do next? Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 29, 2004 06:05 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi R.J.P, Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should i do next? Read the man page!! From man unrar After the program name comes a command and then optional switches with dashes before them. A summary of commands is included below. For a complete description, run unrar without options. therefore the command would be: unrar e -y whatever.rar the e being a command, the -y is a switch. It looks like whatever you downloaded eaqpats12_fullxyz with might have stripped the .rar extension. You might have to tack it back on. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 28, 2004 02:58 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi guys, I have search the debian webpage. Not completely, as there is a load of stuff. I am looking for a program, for debian. To make music, without the need to have some kind of input device for sounds. Is there such a thing? If so, could you recommend a easy to use one? Many Thanks noteedit - to graphically enter notes on a staff and playback with midi rosegarden4 0.96 - sequencer / notation editor (Cubase clone) soundtracker - the best tracker for linux IMHO timidity - for midi if you don't have a hardware synth for playback Noteedit is probably the easiest to use. Start timidity in server mode (timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 ) and then configure noteedit to use the softsynth and you are set. Good luck R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 14:07, Roy Pluschke wrote: On January 28, 2004 02:58 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi guys, I have search the debian webpage. Not completely, as there is a load of stuff. I am looking for a program, for debian. To make music, without the need to have some kind of input device for sounds. Is there such a thing? If so, could you recommend a easy to use one? Many Thanks noteedit - to graphically enter notes on a staff and playback with midi rosegarden4 0.96 - sequencer / notation editor (Cubase clone) soundtracker - the best tracker for linux IMHO timidity - for midi if you don't have a hardware synth for playback Noteedit is probably the easiest to use. Start timidity in server mode (timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 ) and then configure noteedit to use the softsynth and you are set. Good luck R.J.P. Thanks R.J.P, i tried the options ( timidity -0s -iA -B2,8 ) but it doesn't work. That i should check the timidety.cfg file. I read the file, but it does not make anything clear. How do i start imidity in server mode? Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 28, 2004 04:31 am, Stephen Turner wrote: i tried the options ( timidity -0s -iA -B2,8 ) but it doesn't work. That i should check the timidety.cfg file. I read the file, but it does not make anything clear. How do i start imidity in server mode? That is the letter O not a zero in -Os as you have typed :) the output from ( timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 ) should look something like this: ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 2048, period size 1024 bytes TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode can't set sched_setscheduler - using normal priority Opening sequencer port: 129:0 129:1 Note that you must be using alsa for this to work -- see the noteedit website. R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:09, Roy Pluschke wrote: On January 28, 2004 04:31 am, Stephen Turner wrote: i tried the options ( timidity -0s -iA -B2,8 ) but it doesn't work. That i should check the timidety.cfg file. I read the file, but it does not make anything clear. How do i start imidity in server mode? That is the letter O not a zero in -Os as you have typed :) the output from ( timidity -Os -iA -B2,8 ) should look something like this: ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 2048, period size 1024 bytes TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode can't set sched_setscheduler - using normal priority Opening sequencer port: 129:0 129:1 Note that you must be using alsa for this to work -- see the noteedit website. R.J.P. Hi R.J.P, I got the message:- midia.cfg no such file or directory timidity can't read any configuration file pleae check /etc/timidity.cfg I have alsa installed. I shall read the noteedit website in the meantime. Cheers... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On January 28, 2004 09:12 am, Stephen Turner wrote: Hi R.J.P, I got the message:- midia.cfg no such file or directory timidity can't read any configuration file pleae check /etc/timidity.cfg I have alsa installed. I shall read the noteedit website in the meantime. It seems that in testing/unstable the timidity-patches are missing, perhaps there was some licencing issue. I installed timidity a long time ago -- probably on Ham. At that time the patches that came with timidity weren't very good so I installed the eawpats myself. They are available here http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/eawpats12_full.rar You will need to unrar them (apt-get install unrar) I placed them in /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ my timidity.cfg file looks as follows # start dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/ source gravis.cfg source gsdrums.cfg source gssfx.cfg source xgmap2.cfg # end That should get you running :) R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
