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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > You have the same card I do (awe32) and Rosegarden works for you and
> > playmidi does not, and David has a non-awe card and playmidi works
> > for him and Rosegarden does not.
>
> I did not test playback with Rosegarden since playmidi worked. What I
> did test was recording; that did not work, but I suspect that the
> record port on my keyboard may be broken.
>
> David

I was able to both record and play with rosegarden.
Click on Sequencer, then File, Open, and below you see everything greyed 
out on the buttons except a square indicating STOP.

Play (any number of notes at a time) and it records to one generic 
'track'.  Once I learn to specify the instrument for each track, I can 
record recorder/harpsichord sonatas on piano and play back via AWE.

After hitting STOP to stop recording, I then hit the little triangle and 
it PLAYED what I had recorded.  File - Save As let me specify where to 
save and what to save it as.  I could then File-Play the file of that name 
with Rosegarden but it sounded staccato and tinny.

I had to exit Rosegarden to free up /dev/sequencer in order to play with 
Playmidi, which sounds much better.  There is a Play with Slave option in 
Rosegarden, set to xplaymidi by default, but I did not get it working.

I should be able to record on piano and play this back as harpsichord 
(-4 -p1,7).

There is a way to adjust the duration of notes.
I forget what a hemisemiquaver is - 16th note?

Rosegarden notation editor complains I don't have fonts installed.

Rosegarden requires libc6, libSM, libICE, libXaw, libXext libXmu libXt 
libX11.  It is a 1999 version so ought to work with BL3 X libraries.

The windows are too wide for my 800x600 screen.  Next I need to get 
XKeyboard and xaccess working to get rid of the mouse.  Nothing works from 
the keyboard except for typing file names.

Thanks for all the help.