There's a one-page review of Rosegarden 1.5 in Linux Format (UK print magazine) this month.
Executive summary follows. This is from memory, I don't have the magazine in front of me. * It's much more usable for note-twiddling than the previous version they looked at. I'm not clear which version that was, perhaps 1.0 -- they refer to it with apparent puzzlement as having been "version 4", which is clearly just a confusion from our having changed the name. * It's far from obvious how to import audio files. I completely agree with this -- we really need to make at least one File menu function able to directly deal with audio files. I regularly find myself going to File->Open and then doing a double-take when I remember you can't open audio files from there, and that says something. That said, surely only in a Linux magazine would a reviewer complain that importing audio files was unintuitive because you had to drag and drop them onto the program's main window! * Time stretching is useful but slow; the reviewer would have preferred RG to only stretch the part of the audio file that is actually in use in the segment (he correctly notes that RG will stretch the entire file even if the segment offset and end markers are set so as not to play the whole thing). That's a valid point. The main reason we do it the way we do is it's easy and consistent in the sense that the user can then adjust the start and end markers afterwards in just the same way as they could before (i.e. the whole of the rest of the file is still available). * The reviewer praised the handling of synth plugins (saving their settings with the .rg file, etc). Notation wasn't covered. There was an overall score, but I forget what it was (7 or 8 out of 10). The conclusion was that it's probably still the best choice of sequencer, has various flaws, has made good progress recently. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
