Rosegarden vs Sibelius - in an unorthodox way
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:29 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. And being far from a whizz kid - let alone an IT engineer - I'd need a relatively straightforward manner to electronically reproduce/record audio of musical instruments I normally don't play.
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.
This worked, by and large. But not completely, alas: the one big snag here 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 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?
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. And being far from a whizz kid - let alone an IT engineer - I'd need a relatively straightforward manner to electronically reproduce/record audio of musical instruments I normally don't play.
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.
This worked, by and large. But not completely, alas: the one big snag here 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 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?
tnob