Arch and Live Midi Music

Hi all,
I noticed theres a bit of a musician following in Arch. I currently have a basic midi keyboard controller but I'm looking to buy a Novation X-Station. I've noticed that Alsa supports it which is good and my dream is to be making live music completely open source.
I want to hook up a X-Station to a laptop for live performances but just wanted to know what people are using. I know there isn't a direct equivanlent to Reason on Linux but thats the sort of thing I'm after. I'm more of a musician though so if I can do without drums and effects, just need a good synth, piano sound and strings/orch that can be played in real time (with various effects on the desired sound being changed in realtime via midi controls, such as attack, decay, reverb etc.)
Any thoughts, opinions, experiences to share?

Mainstage is very good for this. Each patch you create in Mainstage is made of up separate channel strips, which, in your case, would correspond to each synth/module you are using. Each channel strip can also send to separate MIDI channels on a single device. You will need to be familiar with how each of your pieces of outboard gear changes programs and banks, but it can be done with all of the splits and layers you want.
Hope this helps-- let me know if you have more questions.

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Systran wrote:
I recently had wanted to sign-up for an e-card web-site. However, when I clicked on the web-page, I am NOT ABLE TO HEAR ANY MUSIC. The message shown is that Apple does not support MIDI music.
Please don't tell my wife this, she's been working with MIDI on her Mac(s) since the turn of the century...
The statement from that web site is completely incorrect. What they probably meant was that their software doesn't support Mac. IMHO this is a sign of either ignorance or lack of concern on the part of the site creators. Back in the dark ages a lot of PC apps didn't support Mac but not these days.
Get into your Mac Help window and search MIDI. There's plenty of info there on how your Mac supports MIDI.

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Last edited by wirenik (2008-11-29 07:27:46)

wirenik,
You can't have 5 primary partitions. 4 max, or 3 primary partitions, and a bunch of logical partitions grouped inside an extended partition. Arch will gladly install into a logical partition. (Yes, it will boot just fine too )
If you currently have 2 partitions, you could create one more primary, then use the rest of the disk as an extended partition. You will then be able to create as many logical partitions as you want (well, a bunch anyway).
Something like this:
/dev/sda1 (primary, Windows C)
/dev/sda2 (primary, Windows D)
/dev/sda3 (primary, Arch root)
--- Extended partition ---
/dev/sda5 (logical, Arch /home)
/dev/sda6 (logical, swap)
/dev/sda7 (logical, shared data)
Last edited by peart (2008-11-29 07:26:07)

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[Success] Dual Booting Arch and Windows 7 [Advice / Confirmation]

So I have been trying to get Starcraft II to work with wine and no luck.
I have decided to install windows back on my computer, besides it might come in handy since I'm heading back to school soon.
Anyways I have tried dual booting arch and windows in the past, and my results have never been stable.
Today I will try using the program gparted.
Let me give you my thoughts on how I plan to go through this and please give me some advice so I don't loose everything I have worked for on my linux box
1.Currently I have two hard drives, one for all my main programs and one for my media files (mounting usb, dvd, etc, and it actually has no files in it xD).
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sudo grub
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> setup (hd0)
> exit
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5.Be happy with no headache.
SO....
If someone with past experience with dual booting windows and arch could please give me some advice, as I do not want to lose all my data, start over, and have another headache.
I know I must learn to backup arch, which I will before september.
But if anyone has any protips, or sees a flaw in my plan please point it out!!!
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For now I will wait
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Last edited by Jabrick (2011-07-03 01:29:36)

satanselbow wrote:
1) Windows must be installed to a primary partition - attempting to install it to an logical partition will result in an epic fail
2) Physically disconnect the harddrive you do not want windows on as windows typically installs the bootloader on the 1st hardisk (ie /sda) regardless of installation drive (ie /sdb)
3 / 4) Complete the windows installation then reattached your Arch drive and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (as root) pointing the W7 entry to (hd1,0) - no need to reinstall grub
5) Hey it's windows - anything could happen
If you create an NTFS partition right at the beginning of the the drive before you start the W7 install you can prevent it greedily using up 2 of you 4 primary partitions - I would also completely update you new W7 installation past SP1 before reattaching the other drive to further prevent W7 going mental
satanselbow thank you so much!
Everything works great I had no stumbles, and I hope no problems in the future!!
I will post exactly what I did in case someone has the same issue.
1. Partition you're secondary harddrive as primary ntfs with gparted
2. Reboot, and if you get a file system check error, check you're udev rules. (For my case in particular I had to change the udev rules I got for auto mounting usb, ext harddrive, etc.
3.Power off your computer and physically remove the harddrive that contains all your linux goodies
4. Plug in your windows cd and install in the partition you created
5. Update your windows OS
6. Plug in Ubuntu live CD and reboot
7. Use commands to get grub to overwrite the windows boot loader (In my case I put grub everyone hd0,0 hd0,1 just to be sure, but you might want to do things cleaner)
8. Reboot and see if grub loads up
9. Use Ubuntu live CD again and launch Gparted, select the boot to your extra linux space (if you had one, not sure if this is needed)
10. Plug in your linux harddrive and reconfigure /boot/grub/menu.lst and your good to go
Once again shout outs to satanselbow!!! For without him I might've failed brutally!
Cheers!

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Hi, I would like to dual boot Arch and Ubuntu using GRUB2.
I already have Arch, set up as it's described in the Beginner's Guide, with GRUB2 installed. How would I go about dual booting Ubuntu, preferably without overwriting the existing bootloader?
I haven't tried anything yet, but the problem that I can see is resizing my /home; is this possible on the Ubuntu liveDVD? If not, would I be able to resize /home with my gParted liveCD?
Unfortunately, I have no backup media to use, so I wouldn't be able to transfer anything away as a backup.
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I am using a GPT-partitioned drive, as I read this has many advantages and I do not plan to triple-boot Windows.
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Last edited by rberyl (2012-12-29 11:45:23)

Hi rberyl,
You can change your partitions using an inbuilt tool like cfdisk, or if you'd prefer a GUI gparted can be installed from the Arch repos. This will allow you to shrink sda4, and set up the new partitions for your Ubuntu OS. Although this shouldn't cause any data loss, its best practice to back up just in case.
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Good luck!
Last edited by smazza (2012-12-29 16:04:08)

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