Im happily running SuSE 9.0. And now im asking is there any synthesizer owners doing music with linux. In Win i used to use Sonar and mixed midi and audio together.

Where to start? What kind soundcards you use. Is midi connection working. What progs i should look.

Im ready to spent some money to hardware if needed but before that i need your help where to get started.

Thanks

PS. I have soundblaster extigy but thats maybe isnt good deal in linux?

i suggest you start with an m-audio audiophyle card .. they've got decent support for linux from what i've heard. I'm a Music Production and Engineering specialist on pc and mac but odly i've never touch linux, probably due to the lack of knowledge. I'd love to hear about your luck.

I figured out that terratec 24/96 is "Supported" under suse 9.0 so im thinking to buy it. I will inform my experiences. Thanks for your reply

cool keep me informed indeed

I just read in Linux Format, that Rosegarden should be some of the best sequensing software available for Linux

I have bought terratec 24/96 sound card. Installed (I re installed suse 9.0 and it find it with any problems. so its configured as ICE1712(Envy24).
I also have alsa installed. Then i installed rosegarden ?0.9.1 which came with suse, but i read somewhere it was somehow broken. So i downloaded newest rose...0.9.5.tar.gz and installed. Some dependancy problems were encountered but it was only missing development packages. So now it seems everything should work. But when i start rosegarden it says "The specified file doesnt exists" What file?? Help. I also had installed this JACK and tried to first run it and then rosegarden. No sound. In rosegarden configs it recognized my soundcard okay at least it looks so. I can load some.mid and start to play it but no sound. Am i missing some,something?

Now im starting to study more rosegarden manual.

If somebody has any ideas ,please send it tohere

Much more details if someone could help!

Rosegarden 4-0.9.5 - AlsaDriver - alsa-lib version 0.9.6

ALSA Client information:

64,0 - (Rawmidi 0 - TerraTec EWX24/96 MPU-401, TerraTec EWX24/96 MPU-401) (DUPLEX) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap 127]
128,0 - (KAMix, qamix) (WRITE ONLY) [ctype 1, ptype 1048576, cap 66]

Creating device 0 in Play mode for connection 64:0 TerraTec EWX24/96 MPU-401 (duplex)
Default device name for this device is MIDI external device
Creating device 1 in Record mode for connection 64:0 TerraTec EWX24/96 MPU-401 (duplex)
Default device name for this device is MIDI hardware input device
Creating device 2 in Play mode for connection 128:0 KAMix: qamix (write)
Default device name for this device is MIDI software device
Record port set to (64, 0)

AlsaDriver::initialiseMidi - initialised MIDI subsystem

So this is what i found from rosegarden configure/sequencer settings

Now i noticed that when i start rosegarden 4 from console, i at least get to my synth lcd message midi error. So something moves there.?????????????

Is it too old. Tomorrow im going to use some other midi "bulpurator"

ive had alot of those same probs with rosegarden only i couldnt hear anything from the start so i tried all the upgrades and got basically your same stuff so if you get any help out of this forum throw me a line