| markie- | I have a midi controller keyboard (evolution) and would like to use it with linux, just wondering what's the best application for that? | 00:25 |
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| holstein | markie-: lots of applications | 00:27 |
| holstein | does it work? | 00:27 |
| * holstein phone | 00:27 | |
| markie- | holstein: so i need a synthesizer, but which one will make my midi controller into all different kinds of instruments? | 00:29 |
| holstein | does the controller work? | 00:30 |
| holstein | what it is? | 00:30 |
| holstein | USB? | 00:30 |
| markie- | yea usb | 00:30 |
| holstein | is it recognized by linux? | 00:30 |
| markie- | yea | 00:30 |
| holstein | do you run JACK? | 00:30 |
| markie- | well going to | 00:31 |
| holstein | OK | 00:31 |
| holstein | after getting JACK running | 00:31 |
| holstein | its easy to JACK you USB controller to whatever you want | 00:31 |
| markie- | alright then i shall use JACK for that | 00:32 |
| holstein | http://wootangent.net/category/music/tutorials/ | 00:32 |
| holstein | ^^ a friends stie | 00:32 |
| holstein | site* | 00:32 |
| holstein | [lsd] over in #opensroucemusicians | 00:32 |
| holstein | [lsd] over in #opensourcemusicians ** | 00:33 |
| markie- | ah cool | 00:33 |
| markie- | i shall take a gander at it | 00:33 |
| holstein | he makes all the music on that site in linux | 00:33 |
| markie- | so what synthesizer do you think is best in your opinion? | 00:34 |
| holstein | with soft synths | 00:34 |
| holstein | or his external module with a soft sequencer | 00:34 |
| holstein | markie-: they are all different | 00:34 |
| holstein | you just gotta start getting into them and see | 00:35 |
| markie- | how do they differ | 00:35 |
| holstein | yoshimi or zynaddsubfx | 00:35 |
| holstein | markie-: they differ in everyway | 00:35 |
| holstein | sounds they make | 00:35 |
| holstein | the way they look | 00:35 |
| holstein | the platform | 00:35 |
| holstein | you name it | 00:35 |
| markie- | and play all different kinds of instruments? | 00:37 |
| holstein | you mean sounds? | 00:37 |
| markie- | yea i guess you can say that | 00:38 |
| holstein | say what? | 00:38 |
| markie- | refer to it as sounds rather instruments | 00:38 |
| holstein | OH | 00:38 |
| holstein | yeah | 00:38 |
| markie- | what's the latency like? | 00:38 |
| holstein | its sounds | 00:39 |
| holstein | your not acutally playing different instruments ;) | 00:39 |
| markie- | true | 00:39 |
| holstein | the call them patches i beleive | 00:39 |
| holstein | markie-: latency depends on your sytems | 00:39 |
| holstein | system* | 00:39 |
| markie- | tell me more about that | 00:39 |
| holstein | i can get around 1.2 | 00:39 |
| holstein | for that application | 00:40 |
| holstein | i can get 2.4 or so stable though usually doing whatever i want | 00:40 |
| holstein | if i need to really push things, i can run it at 5.8 | 00:40 |
| markie- | and that's good | 00:40 |
| holstein | or 11 for that matter | 00:40 |
| holstein | if your not playing a soft synth | 00:41 |
| holstein | or doing live effects processing | 00:41 |
| holstein | it really doesnt matter | 00:41 |
| holstein | the latency* | 00:41 |
| markie- | tbh i just wonna play tetris on my midicontroller | 00:41 |
| holstein | hehe | 00:41 |
| markie- | I was running Reason 4 on win7 via virtual machince, and the latency is horrible | 00:42 |
| holstein | well, linux aint magic | 00:42 |
| holstein | you might need to buy an interface | 00:42 |
| markie- | what do you mean? | 00:42 |
| holstein | or check out your system | 00:42 |
| markie- | im unfamilar with all this music on linux | 00:43 |
| holstein | its the same as in windows really | 00:43 |
| holstein | just that linux tends to be more lean | 00:43 |
| holstein | and light weight | 00:43 |
| holstein | markie-: you'll find out when you start trouble shooting JACK | 00:44 |
| holstein | what your latency will be | 00:44 |
| markie- | alright cool | 00:44 |
| markie- | i'll see how it goes, thanks | 00:44 |
| holstein | what audio interface? | 00:44 |
| markie- | yea | 00:44 |
| holstein | yeah, which audio interface are you using? | 00:45 |
| holstein | the internal sound card? | 00:46 |
| holstein | http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx | 00:46 |
| holstein | if so, look at this ^^ | 00:46 |
| holstein | its dirty cheap | 00:46 |
| holstein | and has nice latency in linux im told | 00:46 |
| holstein | plug and play | 00:47 |
| holstein | the only issue is the unbalanced inputs and outputs | 00:47 |
| holstein | but you cant get balanced ins and outs for that price :) | 00:47 |
| markie- | ah right i see | 00:48 |
| terrence | Hi all. tvtime says no signal when I plug in my dstv point | 08:52 |
| terrence | any settings that I should change? | 08:52 |
| terrence | Hi -= Anybody to help - TV Card settings for DSTV | 08:58 |
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