Midi sequencer and Ubuntu Studio!

[rsergio007]

Someone please tell me you have a functional midi + audio environment on Ubuntu Studio!

Some years ago I used a windows pc, with cubase, to record both audio and midi. Cubase could handle both. So I would record midi tracks, record audio tracks, and mix everything down in Cubase.

I'm now trying to use Ubuntu Studio to do the same. Ardour seems to do the job for audio but on the Midi side I'm struggling. I've looked at Rosegarden and Muse but bumped into my own ignorance.

I'm trying to record midi from a Korg N1, routed into my Delta 1010, routed via Jack/ALSA to Muse/Rosegarden. I've been able to record the midi events.

I'm now struggling with playing the midi tracks, and listening to them using the native Korg N1 synth sounds, and then eventually re-route the resulting audio into Ardour.
What's the best way to do this? If people record midi in Muse/Rosegarden, I'm sure they are then able to transform the midi events into sound (using whatever hard/soft synth they use) and integrate those tracks with their Ardour tracks.

Please give me a hand! Last night was long and my head is now turning with ALSA, Timidity, DSSI plugins, etc, etc.

My setup shouldn't be tricky:
Korg N1 keyboard/synth and Roland SPD-20 drum machine via Midi
Several real instruments routed into a Mackie mixer
These devices all connect to a Delta 1010 card (midi in/out, 8 audio in + 8 audio out)
Then I have Ubuntu Studio 10.04

 

[DJYoshaBYD]

i have had midi issues with Ardour before as well, and coming from a windows and hardware background, it was a pain in the ass to figure out..

I actually started messing around with qtractor on ubuntu, and found it to be pretty sweet.. im not ready to convert all my gear over from windows yet, but this is actually pretty good.. i havent had any problems (yet, anyway), but you may want to try it, to see if your gear works in another DAW.. If it works in another DAW, then you know its a module problem with linux, and not Ardour..

 

[rsergio007]

Thanks! I did try qtractor yesterday and it worked! It still looks quite basic but the bottom line is I managed to do what I wanted.
I was able to record several midi tracks, touch-up, route the signal back to my korg synth, re-record as audio and now I'll be able to use these tracks in other packages to assemble the whole audio piece.
Any other suggestions?