Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Seven things about me

I am late to the game and I bet some people hoped this would all be over by now, but lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
I was proudly nominated by giants of the Internet age: Patrick Finch, Asa Dotzler, Mike Beltzner, Abdulkadir Topal, and almost, almost by Chris Hofmann. For that I [...]

Rosegarden progress

Despite the early frustrations with Rosegarden, I’ve actually made some significant progress. By reading the great but simple tutorial on UbuntuStudio on how to set up things like JACK in Ubuntu, I am now able to use Rosegarden with the included synth plugins to actually play .wav samples and sequence it to resemble something that [...]

Create music with Rosegarden in Linux? Impossible.

I’m annoyed. I’ve spent the whole evening tinkering with Rosegarden and after four hours I still haven’t managed to connect a MIDI note to a sound! Has anyone used this before? As a nerd, I feel insulted when I can’t master an application after so many hours of googling, configuring, and tweaking. I just want [...]