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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. 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 .

  3. 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).