On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:51 PM, alex stone <compos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Going forward, i think Julie also has it right with an inbuilt synth for
> those who want to plug and play.
Right, it would certainly be nice to have a synth (perhaps a plugin
setup) available out of the box. That's a somewhat bigger problem
though, and I'm not sure it would be so nice to be forced to solve
that one as well before the next release.
Well, perhaps it would. But let's assume not, for now.
In the meantime it would be good to improve the situation with MIDI
connections for everyone, and I don't think it's all that reasonable
to make it impossible to get any sound out of Rosegarden on first run
without going to the MIDI device manager dialog. That seems like sort
of a reductio ad absurdam of the current situation ("it's effectively
impossible, so let's simplify it by making it actually impossible").
It should _at least_ be possible to select an output in the main
window, and if you do have a perfectly good synth already running,
Rosegarden should use that.
But that doesn't have to have any bearing on the question of how well
Rosegarden remembers your carefully configured composition settings
when you reload a composition. I suppose what I'm suggesting is that
we separate "what we do when you first run with an empty composition"
from "what you do when loading your own composition" (or even "when
loading your own saved studio").
Incidentally, don't forget that even re-connecting your saved
connections from your composition is not an exact science. Just
because the same synths are running now as were running then, doesn't
mean they'll have the same client numbers or that we'll necessarily be
able to distinguish between them by name. Though we can do a lot
better than we do now (by not mixing up random other auto-connections
with restored ones).
Chris
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