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Rosegarden Developers Interviewed by O'Reilly
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..."
Rosegarden looks absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, its dependancy on KDElibs and QT make it impractical for me to build it in a reasonable amount of time (I'm on gentoo, so binaries for everything isn't really an option) and its layout makes it impossible for me to use it in ratpoison (my WM of choice) anyway.
Looks nice, but definitely could use some work in the dependancy and UI area.
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
Mod me troll if you want (uh but flamebait preferred :) ), but i'm getting tired of Linux-only releases in a cross-platform world.
And considering that the majority of music users use, well, WINDOWS... (my dad always bought windows music products. I think Rosengarden is missing a huge potential market: Windows users.
I tried freeware Windows MIDI sequencers a couple of years ago, all sucked. So I'd gladly appreciate if the Rosengarden devs made their software cross-platform, now that it's STILL IN EARLY development. This is when major structural changes can be done with nobody noticing.
And finally... for those of you who want to flame me with "this is NOT a Windows thread", I respond: If I don't come in the Linux zone and say that window users needs cross-platform versions of already existing linux apps, then who's going to tell them?
My 2 cents.