Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] What sequencer to you use?
From: Kevin Hremeviuc (khremeviuc_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 02:37:38 EEST
Hi Frank,
The choice of sequencer is very dependent on the way
that you work, and on how you want to go about it.
If you have several external midi devices that you
want to control then Jazz seems to be out, but Muse (
not very stable as yet, but Werner is doing a migty
job at a pretty good pace) might do the job ( a lot of
programs seem to fall by the wayside development wise
- Brahms etc and I am not sure whether others are
being improved upon - Rosegarden ).
Also, if you want tight integration between hard disk
recording and sequencing of multiple external midi
devices etc, then your choices are pretty much limited
to hanging around for Muse to become fully functional
Jazz++ might do the job for a single midi device, but
since going open source they switched to compiling in
the alsa audio drivers for released binaries. This
means if you only have an OSS supported soundcard you
have to download wxwin (???) and go through a
convoluted process to compile in OSS support. I paid
good money for a license only to be cut loose!!!
Besides Jazz++ is useless for real hard disk recording
and accessing multiple external midi devices ( or even
one soundcard and an external device)!.
regards
Kevin
--- Frank Neumann <franky_AT_viona.de> wrote: >
> Hi,
> I was wondering if you folks could give me some
> feedback on what MIDI software
> you are using under Linux for your hobby (or
> day-to-day work?) projects.
>
> I have been looking around the net for a while, and
> compiled a short list
> of sequencer programs that I checked out or at least
> looked at. I added my
> personal comments on them, which might be wrong.
> Please feel free to tell
> me your comments. By the way, I'd like to avoid KDE
> applications on my
> system. Qt is ok, though.
>
> Here's my list:
>
> - binars (http://binars.sourceforge.net) - looked
> good though not finished,
> but has been silent since April.
>
> - gseq (http://members.xoom.com/gseq) - has been
> silent since February,
> and the latest version didn't really seem usable
> to me.
>
> - jazz (http://www.jazzware.com) - Might be the best
> choice right now,
> but I personally don't like the user interface
> very much (Motif look).
> I hope the gtk+ still makes progress; I don't
> follow the mailing lists.
>
> - melys (http://melys.sourceforge.net) - Looks
> promising, but has been silent
> since February. Not very complete yet.
>
> - quasimodo (http://quasimodo.org) - looks
> interesting, but is currently at
> an early stage - I hope pbd really manages to
> continue work on it. :-)
>
> - Rosegarden
> (http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html) - the user
> interface
> appears a bit old-style to me (Xt programming?).
>
> - Brahms
>
(http://lienhard.desy.de/mackag/homepages/jan/Brahms/)
> - never tried
> it, requires KDE, last release is from Sep99
> (stalled?)
>
> - Muse (http://muse.seh.de/) - might be worth a try,
> active, never tried
> it myself yet, will do so soon (just stumbled over
> it).
>
> - Sted2 (sted2.sourceforge.net) - unusual approach
> to MIDI sequencer, but
> I might like it if there was english documentation
> available (very short
> startup time, "snappy" UI). Rather silent these
> days.
>
> If you know of any projects missing in this list
> that you can recommend,
> I'd like to hear about it.
>
> Regards,
> Frank
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