New to KXStudio
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:26 pm
Greetings all,
On my IBM 64 bit Intel (R) Core (TM) i 5-3470 CPU @320 GHz 3.20 GHz desktop I'm currently running DreamStudio 12.04 LTS. RAM = 4 GB; DHH = 750 GB. Besides, I have Windows 7 Professional, as auxiliary, in a VM - with Sibelius as sole application.
In an earlier post, elsewhere in these forums, I was advised to go for KXStudio (and a few things more), if I want to play musical instrument samples and record musical instrument sample audio.
I'm still tapping in the dark about a number of things:
1) Unclear is if installing of KXStudio will wipe out DreamStudio. Or, on the other hand, as to whether it'll be possible to integrate KXStudio as application within DreamStudio.
I'd much prefer the latter;
2) If installing KXStudio without destroying DreamStudio is indeed an option, what additional components would I need? And, more importantly, where to get those from?
2) I'm far from a whizz kid, let alone an IT engineer. Hence, I'd need a relatively straightforward manner to electronically reproduce/record audio of musical instruments I normally don't play.
I thought I had found one.
With a MIDI interface correctly connected and just an empty stave opened in Sibelius (say clarinet), hitting a piano key will effortlessly produce the correct sound. What's more: clarinet can now be played as if it were a real instrument. And even with VM/Windows/Sibelius relegated to another Workspace, in my specific setup, audio will still easily be captured in an Ubuntu Audacity or Ardour score, in principle.
However, the one big snag here is that latency is truly atrocious: this because GS Wavetable Synth is Window's standard sound provider - and it can't be switched off! Every attempt at replacing it with ASIO4ALL (latency 0) has failed, so far.
And now I wonder if what I previously have been trying with Sibelius could also be achieved with Rosegarden. Or is the latter, like every notation tool previously attempted in Ubuntu, limited to one note at a time as well?
3) I have also been looking at Sonatina Symphony Orchestra - but I don't really like the sound of it: quality a bit too "muddy", to my taste, and far too much reverb added. I came across Total Composure Orchestra as well - but that, as yet, is still unknown quantity.
It runs on full version Kontakt. I'm still not sure, though, if TCO will suit KXStudio/Ubuntu.
4) Coming from a jazz background, the main sound files I'd need would be:
- trumpet;
- trumpet (growl);
- trumpet (muted)
- clarinet;
- alto sax
- tenor sax
- baritone sax
- bass sax
- trombone
- trombone (muted);
- sousaphone
- double bass (plucked)
- double bass (bowed)
- strings
Where to look for those? And what would be the best format?
Thanks in advance for your help.
tnob
On my IBM 64 bit Intel (R) Core (TM) i 5-3470 CPU @320 GHz 3.20 GHz desktop I'm currently running DreamStudio 12.04 LTS. RAM = 4 GB; DHH = 750 GB. Besides, I have Windows 7 Professional, as auxiliary, in a VM - with Sibelius as sole application.
In an earlier post, elsewhere in these forums, I was advised to go for KXStudio (and a few things more), if I want to play musical instrument samples and record musical instrument sample audio.
I'm still tapping in the dark about a number of things:
1) Unclear is if installing of KXStudio will wipe out DreamStudio. Or, on the other hand, as to whether it'll be possible to integrate KXStudio as application within DreamStudio.
I'd much prefer the latter;
2) If installing KXStudio without destroying DreamStudio is indeed an option, what additional components would I need? And, more importantly, where to get those from?
2) I'm far from a whizz kid, let alone an IT engineer. Hence, I'd need a relatively straightforward manner to electronically reproduce/record audio of musical instruments I normally don't play.
I thought I had found one.
With a MIDI interface correctly connected and just an empty stave opened in Sibelius (say clarinet), hitting a piano key will effortlessly produce the correct sound. What's more: clarinet can now be played as if it were a real instrument. And even with VM/Windows/Sibelius relegated to another Workspace, in my specific setup, audio will still easily be captured in an Ubuntu Audacity or Ardour score, in principle.
However, the one big snag here is that latency is truly atrocious: this because GS Wavetable Synth is Window's standard sound provider - and it can't be switched off! Every attempt at replacing it with ASIO4ALL (latency 0) has failed, so far.
And now I wonder if what I previously have been trying with Sibelius could also be achieved with Rosegarden. Or is the latter, like every notation tool previously attempted in Ubuntu, limited to one note at a time as well?
3) I have also been looking at Sonatina Symphony Orchestra - but I don't really like the sound of it: quality a bit too "muddy", to my taste, and far too much reverb added. I came across Total Composure Orchestra as well - but that, as yet, is still unknown quantity.
It runs on full version Kontakt. I'm still not sure, though, if TCO will suit KXStudio/Ubuntu.
4) Coming from a jazz background, the main sound files I'd need would be:
- trumpet;
- trumpet (growl);
- trumpet (muted)
- clarinet;
- alto sax
- tenor sax
- baritone sax
- bass sax
- trombone
- trombone (muted);
- sousaphone
- double bass (plucked)
- double bass (bowed)
- strings
Where to look for those? And what would be the best format?
Thanks in advance for your help.
tnob