[Ardour-Users] Gear recommendations for Ardour

[Kees van Veen]

Hi,

I'm using an E-MU Xmidi cable (paid 35 euro for it) 
(http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&product=15188) 
plug it in midi outputs of a keyboard (or 'silent' piano in my case). 
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 which recognizes it right away, as did 9.04 (Jack 
lists it under the Alsa tab) and connect it to Qsynth, found a good 
piano and hammond organ sound bank and can record directly into Ardour.

Kees

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ardour-Users] Gear recommendations for Ardour
From: Roberto Suarez Soto <talkingxouba at gmail.com>
To: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
Date: Thu Jan 28 2010 07:06:06 GMT+0100 (CET)
> Hi,
>
> 	sorry if this is more a hardware question than an Ardour one. But as
> you'll see, it's related. Not completely, but quite :-)
>
> 	I use Ardour with ZynAddSubFX. Using the computer keyboard to emulate
> a "real" (i.e., piano-like) keyboard gets complex quickly, and I wondered
> what devices are people using here. I don't play the piano, but I'd like to
> play some chords and simple melodies. I have never used any MIDI-related
> devices in Linux, and I don't know how easy or difficult is to get them going.
>
> 	I had my eyes on several Behringer options:
>
> 	- U-Control UMA 25S
> (http://www.thomann.de/es/behringer_ucontrol_uma_25s.htm)
> 	- U-Control UMX 25
> (http://www.thomann.de/es/behringer_ucontrol_umx_25.htm)
> 	- U-Control UMX 61
> (http://www.thomann.de/es/behringer_ucontrol_umx_61.htm)
>
> 	I'm looking for something cheap, in case I get tired of it and throw
> it into the closet forever. I don't know what are the differences between the
> 25S and the 25 (besides color and design), so I'd probably go for the 25S.
> But I'm afraid both of them are quite small, and I'm considering also the UMX
> 61. It looks more like a real keyboard, and is not much more expensive.
>
> 	What are your recommendations on this? Any other options? Are they
> plug & play, or do they require some tweaking?
>
> 	Besides, what are people using for "general" software synth
> emulation? I'd like something that can pass for a piano and has strings and
> the like to wrap my guitar playing. ZynAddSubFX is good (to my unexperienced
> ear), but maybe there are other options that I hadn't considered. Obviously,
> must play nice with Ardour and Jack.
>
> 	Sorry for the length, and thanks in advance.
>
>