LinuxMusicians

Thanks for the detailed response.

The midi keyboard connects to the pc via USB, in my confusion I didn't think of that.

The ID4 looks very neat but outside my budget atm (same price as 2i2), mostly because I also want to get a portable recorder and that costs about the same.

I've been looking around and it seems there's 3 options available: - Scarlett 2i2: seems to be widely recommended, but it's expensive (for me) - Behringer UMC22: some good reviews, almost half the price of the other two - Behringer UM204hd: expensive, but has midi ports As far as instruments go, I o...

I was playing with setBfree last night. I put my computer to sleep and turned off the MIDI keyboard cause it has an annoying light. Today I wake my computer up and turn on the keyboard. There was no combination of connections under qjackctl that would make the controller play setBfree. I had to clos...

Some fonts load fine, others give this warning: No preset found on channel X (0 to 16) [bank=0 prog=0] If I load these same files with the fluidsynth GUI with calfjackhost they play sound just fine without having to do anything, but I have a script to launch different instruments automatically, and ...

What got me interested in this rabbit hole is the question, could strong AI make music that is virtually indistinguishable from human written music. Does it matter? This could mean that an AI is as good as writing the shittiest music a human could make. I think the music itself could be more intere...

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows what's good hardware for recording sounds in the wild. I imagine that for about the price of a phone you could get a good mic with some form of storage for recording very high quality audio, but I don't know anything about what would make a piece of hardware good. A...

Here you can see: a2j is running, jack is running, Helm is set to use jack and it even recognizes my BK492 keyboard. But I press the keys and nothing happens. https://paste.xinu.at/8LPvQj/ The keyboard works fine with other programs such as fluidsynth, vcvrack, even helm within an Ardour session bec...

2nd EDIT It did load with qsample. I wonder why not with fluidsynth.

EDIT Well, nothing seems to happen when I load that file with Fluidsynth.

there is a sfz file... I don't know how I missed it thanks

Tried with this script that I found but it doesn't work: https://gist.github.com/coderofsalvation/3097565

I'm so lost in this GUI. There's no settings for jack, and the name of the current preset is nowhere to be found. Am I blind?

Thanks!

Using Ardour and Helm, sometimes I'll record something (midi) and later find out that playing with some knobs like distortion or reverb yields a nice effect during certain parts. I can't do that "live" unless I'm playing with only one hand. So is there a way to record MIDI, play it back and record m...

ty for making me feel less dumb about it

Well I feel dumb now, solution was to use $HOME instead of ~

Doing fluidsynth -a jack -j ~/soundfonts/KawaiUprightPiano-20180102.sf2 directly from terminal works as intended, however, putting the exact same line within a bash script results in: Parameter '~/soundfonts/KawaiUprightPiano-20180102.sf2' not a SoundFont or MIDI file or error occurred identifying i...