Music apps in Ubuntu, WOW ! Success story.

[Eric Devost]

Hi all,

I've been using music apps on linux (exclusively on RedHat and Fedora 
with the work made by the Planet CCRMA guy's at the Stanford University) 
for the last 5 years. Couldn't make it work under other distro (Jack and 
ALSA were always getting me headaches...)

Yesterday I thought I could give a chance to Ubuntu... Installed 
Jack-Qjackctl, Rosegarden, Fluidsynth-Qsynth, Ardour and Jamin. I was 
pretty happy to find all theses in the rep :) That's was just the 
beggining of my good surprises.

Jack starded right away, just needed a little tweak for the buffer size and
bingo, it was up and running, same with Fluidsynth (loaded the necessary 
soundfonts and voilà !). Ok, the real test now.

Fired up Rosegarden, connected it on Fluidsynth and yahoo ! Music 
comming up just fine with no clips ! Yeah, that more than I expect for a 
first try !

Last test : Synchronising Rosegarden and Ardour, playing MIDI with 
Rosegarden and
recording multitrack the output of Rosegarden and a little input from a 
mic. That ran so smoothly I couldn't believe it ! An install pretty much 
out of the box of all that did the job on Breezy. Wow, great work ! 
Great distro ! Keep on rocking !

Eric, very happy Ubuntu User (3 pc'c running Ubuntu at home) :)