@BobBroadley: To read the questions on the Code Review SE is good advice.

As for tutoring in programming, with the right dude/dudette it might work, but it's not usually how it works.

If you have a program you're writing, I guess they could comment on that, or you could write it together.

It is an interesting idea for sure.

I'm sure you've figured this out already, but grad students might not have gathered all the good habits of programming yet...

Cheers @MeaningfulUsername I'll check out CodeReview.SE; it's one of the SE sites I don't know at all...

I see that @Bradd Szonye's question about intervals got deleted. I can kind of see why he got cheesed off with the direction of the post. Anyway, if you're about Bradd, I thought the "method of learning intervals" aspect was a really interesting part of the question; for me, far more than using well-known-songs. It would be great to see the "method" aspect appear as a question...

@RoryAlsop have you watch the vid that I gave to you long time ago?

Well, not really long time. Just couple of days perhaps

@ReinaldyRafli can you repost a link - I got sidetracked by the Gumball rally

Will try and look this eve

@RoryAlsop are you using the same laptop when you work and home?

@ReinaldyRafli no - I use 4 or 5 different devices during a normal day

@RoryAlsop here's the link, but I think this eve (your eve) will be full of message :))

Because I'm online :D

Sorry to interrupt but I have very simple (and probably stupid) question. I need to record from my synth (Yamaha PSR E323) to my laptop(Lenevo Z570). I have a USB MIDI cable which I plan to use. I run Ubuntu and the software I'm using is Rosegarden.

I have absolutely no experience in sound recording/design etc .. I would greatly appreciate if someone could give me a step-by-step guide on how to simply record from my keyboard and save the audio file in my computer .

Thanks a lot in advance :)

don't know rosegarden, but if it is like any other recording software, you simply need to make sure your synth is recognised correctly, it is either passing audio to your software or you have patches in rosegarden to generate the audio, then you configure it to save the audio.

A lot of this will be down to reading the manual

My expectation: configure rosegarden to accept midi from the synth, configure patches/VSTs in the DAW, record your midi in a rosegarden sound project, then save

@user126190 I think the manual (rosegardenmusic.com/tour/midi) will helps you

@user126190 One thing that might be tripping you up if you're new to this is that if your Yamaha PSR generates sound, you will not be able to record that same sound to your computer with a USB-MIDI cable. MIDI only carries information about notes turning on or off -- it does not carry any sound. To use this cable to record, you need to configure your computer to generate sounds based on the MIDI data, and then record those sounds.

@RoryAlsop @ReinaldyRafli @NReilingh thank you very much for your help .. :-)

@NReilingh thanks for explaining the way it works .. but how do I configure my computer to generate sounds based on the MIDI data ?

We got a nice number of people in chat today.

@user126190 this is where you need a DAW, or something to change midi info to audio

looks like Rosegarden has synths built in : rosegardenmusic.com/tour/synths

@RoryAlsop ok .. so I don't have to change the midi info to audio manually ? I just have to use the built in synths to record and then save it ?

@user126190 yes. I use Cubase, but the procedure is going to be similar - record your midi into Rosegarden, then you can replay it as many times as you need to get the synths to sound how you want, then export to mp3 or wav

@RoryAlsop Thanks a lot :-)

@RoryAlsop For exporting to mp3 .. do I have to follow these instructions ? -- rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/doc:audiomanager-en

@user126190 It looks like it, yes - that FAQ is a bit...work in progress...sin't it :-)

@RoryAlsop yup .. you are correct ;-) ... anyway thanks again for your help :-)

@BobBroadley The mods deleted my interval training post until I can sort out a better way to ask the question that won't turn it into CW or too specific to me. I thought I was headed in that direction with my last edit, but when I get time I'll discuss it here or in meta to figure out how better to ask the question.

@BraddSzonye Great, well like I say, I thought the idea of asking about different methods of learning intervals (which I think you had in your comments…) was really interesting.