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Rosegarden Developers Interviewed by O'Reilly

Posted by michael on from the i-am-your-angel-of-music dept.

rayk_sland writes "Users of the Rosegarden Sequencer project will be gratified to see it featured in O'Reilly's Linux DevCenter web magazine. I am a devoted fan of this program, which allows the user to sequence music using classical music notation, and has many other sequencer features I haven't even properly fathomed (read the article.) The Rosegarden project has recently released a 'pre-1' beta. Almost time for those party streamers..."

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  1. stability by polyp2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've tried Rosegarden a couple of times - looks to be a very promising package - i've even contributed some stuff to the project. Last time i tried it though (probably 6-12 months ago) it had a tendancy to die unexpectedly rendering it fairly useless for anything serious. Its good to see its now approaching a final release. I will be trying this out to see how its been coming along - and maybe ... just maybe I can actually write some tunes under linux...

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    1. Re:stability by unit01 · · Score: 3, Informative

      I have it running on an amd 64 gentoo system and the stability is great. combined with the JACK audio connection kit its blindly powerful. Dan

  2. Lilypond by gtrubetskoy · · Score: 4, Informative


    Looks like Rosegarden can export to Lilypond, which is by far the best music notation program AFAIAC. For years in our choir there were sheets made using Finale, and when I remade one using Lilypond people were asking me where is the book that this came from, it just looks so professional. They have a great paper on this .

    1. Re:Lilypond by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
      "The most obvious difference is that MusE doesn't have a score editor"

      There's a editor for muse here

      If you are using lilypond on windows (or not), I would highly recommend LilyTool for JEdit
  3. NoteEdit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    NoteEdit is also decent for sheet music to Lilypond if that's what you're looking for.

    Unfortunately the project is half-dead due to percieved disinterest. Doesn't make it less functional though.

  4. Re:Any chance on a Windows version? by tajmorton · · Score: 2, Informative
    This might help you...
    Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software. In its current condition, it allows us to run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows (see Screenshots).
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    Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
  5. Re:Rosegarden looks fantastic by Guillaume+Laurent · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the text you're linking to is a bit misleading : no coding was ever actually done using plain GTK+, we never even considered that option. We went for gtk-- right away (or, if you prefer, we went for GTK+ as soon as we learned that C++ bindings were available).