Re: [Fedora-music-list] Fedora 21 and beyond
Brendan,
On 2014-01-18 05:21, Brendan Jones wrote:
Hey all,
Where to next? (ha ha Fedora next - we will see)
A few points:
- we have had the same wallpaper for 3 spins now (yes I created it
and it is awesome but could be better - should change with every
release)
- there is a legal issue with the icons we are using - there is a bug
raised but not actioned. We really need the offending icons removed or
choose a new set. Maintainer is AWOL
- we still haven't solved the problem of seamlessly integrating pulse
and jack
I'm starting to think that there is little point having a spin at all.
My original idea was that having the spin would encourage more users
to use Fedora and as a result create some kind of community (and
hopefully attract more upstream developers).
This hasn't happened. I'm too busy to blog, promote, berate the
goodness of the Jam etc. Maybe someone else is. Maybe we are not
promoting ourselves enough? I don't know. Maybe we are being lazy.
In any case, I will not be taking on any more packages, unless
explicitly asked by someone who actually gives a damn.
I have been subscribed to this list from the beginning - I don't own
have a background in music (it was BioMedical Research and later IT) -
but now that I am sort of retired I wanted to renew my teen years
interest in music. The issue for me with the list is that I would not
install a music spin - I have my server, my laptop and my VMs and it is
not appropriate to install the music spin on any of them (the VM
probably wouldn't work with sound anyway - I have enough problems with
sound on the real hardware). I guess what would be nice for me is to be
able install a suite of well integrated music apps on to one of my
existing machines - a set of apps that would all "just work" would be
great. For example see below for a note I posted to the Denemo list (no
responses yet). Maybe this list could branch out to the "Suite Install"
idea as well as being a general forum for Fedoraists to discuss their
music stuff?
Regards,
Phil.
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 02:48:15 +1100
From: Philip Rhoades <phil(a)pricom.com.au>
To: Denemo Devel <denemo-devel(a)gnu.org>
Subject: Newbie getting MIDI K/B to work with ALSA and qjackctl
People,
Googling found some previous posts trying to get this to work with
earlier versions of Denemo but they were no help for me so I hope it is
OK to request help here. Prior to this exercise I have been able to set
timidity up as a daemon and play sounds and record stuff from the MIDI
K/B but qjackctl won't run with timidity running in daemon mode. So
this is what I have now:
"aconnect -i -o" gives:
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
0 'Midi Through Port-0'
client 20: 'AXIS-49 2A' [type=kernel]
0 'AXIS-49 2A MIDI 1'
client 130: 'denemo' [type=user]
0 'midi_in '
1 'midi_out '
In Denemo Preferences - Audio/MIDI I have:
Audio Backend - Portaudio
Output device - ALSA: HDA Intel: 92HD73E1X5 Digital (hw:0,1)
MIDI Backend - ALSA
Rhythm entry for MIDI - checked
In the qjackctl connections dialog there are:
- System entries under the Audio tab
- No entries under the MIDI tab
- All the stuff that aconnect listed above under the ALSA tab
But:
- I still can't select "MIDI Input" from the Input menu
- From the qjackctl connection dialog I can connect the "AXIS-49 2A MIDI
out" to the "Denemo MIDI in" - but nothing shows up in Denemo when
hitting the keys
- If I try and select "MIDI Input" from the Input menu again - it
disconnects the link in the qjackctl dialog box
I've run out of ideas . . suggestions?
Thanks,
Phil.
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Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au