Jack Server help needed
I've gathered that only Jack Server is the way that I can use MIDI playback in Musescore. I downloaded a copy of Jackserver from their website and used the WIndows OS Installer version. I've also downloaded pkunzip to unpack it, when I do so, I get a .OUT file, which is not correct. Can someone help me on how to install it in WIndows Vista. I once had it in a copy of XP, but that Hard Drive crashed and I now have Vista.
Thanks.
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See http://musescore.org/en/node/3267
Keep in mind that it's still experimental. Why do you want MIDI playback? Is the soundfont playback not good enough?
In reply to See by [DELETED] 5
I'd like to have playback on the MIDI keyboard, both for sound and recording and in that the new keyboard I have shows finger placement on the keys, allowing me to verify playability and chord placement. The soundfont is good, just not the full sound I'm looking for.
In reply to See by [DELETED] 5
As I stated, I get only a jack.out file. Do I put that in the binaries area? But then how do I run that to select "Jack Control" as stated in the link?
In reply to BTW by venetianmilw
I don't know about jack.out. Just follow the steps.... Download jack-1.9.5.tgz.tar, unzip with 7Zip and you will find an installer in jack-1.9.5\bin\windows\
In reply to I don't know about jack.out. by [DELETED] 5
I have used Musescore 0.9.5 and have just downloaded 6.1. I think Musescore is great - much better than some of the other score writers I have tried.At the moment, I am using Windows 7 Starter. I have read your notes about installing Jack, I have downloaded jack-1.9.5.tgz.tar. I have run it through 7-zip, and it only seems to produce one file which is named jack-1.9.5 I cannot open it just by clicking on it, and don't understand the reference to jack-1.9.5\bin\windows. Is this to be created in in C: root, and if not, where? I would also like to hear my results on my Yamaha keyboard. Thanks in advance
In reply to Jack server by Swordfish86700
The file you obtain is again a "zip" file. Open and uncompress it with 7zip. Note again that this is very experimental...
In reply to The file you obtain is again by [DELETED] 5
Thanks for the info. I have got all the files now, but cannot get the Jack server working (Qjackctrl seems OK, but jack keeps on crashing) - so back to the drawing board for me. I will keep watching the various forums.
In reply to Jack server by Swordfish86700
Back to the drawing board? I don't get it. You can write and listen to your score with MuseScore. The soundfont engine should play the score.
In reply to Back to the drawing board? I by [DELETED] 5
You are quite right of course, in fact I am at the moment using an 8Mb SF2 which I have had for several years - came with a sound card I no longer use. If I want to hear it on my keyboard, I can do so by converting the output file to a midi file and downloading it to the Yamaha, but that is not the same as hearing the music in real-time as I write it, as the instruments are not going to sound precisely the same in SF2 as on theYamaha. In Preferences, I can see the Yamaha input, but not the output as I would on other notation programs I have used.
If the truth be told, my problem is that if I see there is some feature available in a piece of software, I can't resist fnding out if I can make it work - how sad, eh!
I can't even find "Jack Control". All I have is a bunch of non-executable files.