On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Chris Cannam
<can...@all-day-breakfast.com>wrote:
> 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
>
Yes, i guess what i'm saying is, get the other connections out of the
picture, unless specifically called for by the user. Surely that gives us a
better chance of repeating a connection profile for a saved project, or
indeed the default studio(s).
Even first time users will become 2nd time users, etc, and like any app,
they'll find they're way around RG, read the fine manual, and explore
options. The first time user's experience is important, but so is continuity
for regular users.
Alex
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