GNU/Linux User & Developer issue 71 contains a four page article about Rosegarden, as part of an ongoing tutorial series about free software tools for creative users.
"It's an easy-to-learn, attractive application [...] ideal for composers, musicians, music students and small studio or home recording environments." The online tutorial gets thankful mention for being comprehensive and readable and quickly getting the user started. The use of the different main editors was described as intuitive. It is claimed that "tracks [are] prone to mysteriously disappearing whilst being moved." (?) "The new features in this release [1.4.0] of Rosegarden are pleasantly not too overwhelming. They seem to be the carefully considered results of its developers listening to its users. Features are balanced with sensible fixes and the whole has become a highly usable music creation tool." All in all a very positive article. Gunhild on den 18.04.2007 klokka 12:22 (+0100) skreiv Chris Cannam: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
