Hi, I don't have accesss to my machine with rosegarden. But while you wait for some ore authoritative sources of wisdom on the list...
> 1. If I have multiple tracks for the same piano instrument, if the > tracks do not begin at the same time, when the later one starts, it > causes a break in the playing of the earlier track. Particularly > noticeable as it interrupts the sustain pedal. Tracks (vertically stacked ones) or segments (horizontally organised coloured blocks)? > 2. The piece has a lot of longly held sustain pedal. While editing, if I > happen to start midway through a pedal change, it takes a while for the > sustain to kick back in.. Is there some kind of autodetect to > artificially cause the sustain or other controllers to kick in on > playback start with the most recent value before the start time? I think you are talking about midi controller 'look-back' i.e. a feature where upon playback the last controller should also be 'played' ('sent'). I'm not sure if Rosegarden has that feature though > > 3. In matrix mode, it is very easy to select and move around notes, but > if you have ranges to remove, the controller inputs very easily get out > of sync. I end up deleting all the sustain pedal events, and rerecording > just the pedal. This is really a problem with having the sustain pedal being a channel controller, i.e. controllers are not tied to notes but influence the channel globally. I think they decided to have it that way because potentially you can have a sustain 'press' *after* a note is played... Controller events should be somehow part of the matrix > editor, so you can select and move them along with the notes they belong > to. I tried editing in a "ruler", but I could never drag the events > around. I would pull just a little, and it jumps way off, seemed like a > bug. Also, I couldn't delete events in the ruler. I agree though that controller editing has always been suboptimal in rosegarden (e.g. it should be possible to select a bunch of controller and drag them etc. to make the thing really usable - see how e.g. qtractor does it) > > 4. In matrix mode, particularly the velocity ruler, is there any way to > apply a "velocity envelope" to a range of notes. That is, scale them, > like a volume curve slider. So you edit the much simpler envelope to > affect a whole mess of notes. Alternately, can you apply (not just > scale) velocity to an envelope? No but I'm 99% sure there's something in the Adjust (?) menu to achieve that effect like 'scale velocities' or similar... > > 5. Also in the velocity ruler, is there some way to show ONLY the notes > currently selected? This would help considerably when the track might be > playing 7 or more notes at once, and you want to affect only one hand's > notes. Not that I'm aware of. one trick I use is this: if you select only the notes you want to change the velocity of, then you can increase / decrease the velocity with a keyboard shortcut *I think* it is CTRL + SHIFT + up/down arrow or something like that... > > 6. Rosegarden seems to have a 5 minute limit. I cannot scroll past 5 > minutes. I can position tracks so they go past 5 minutes, but cannot > access them. Is there some setting that controls this? My piano piece is > 7 minutes, and I had to chop in half to play back everything. Look at the menu Composition -> Change Composition Duration in the main window > > 7. Is it possible to continuously change the tempo of a piece? So like > record a regular pattern, but have it easily start to speed up or slow > down over time. I often find a constant tempo throughout to be kind of > stale. Yes. there is a tempo ruler at the top. You add start and end desired tempo change and then select 'ramp tempo' or something like that. Beware that this is a rosegarden file only thing and will not be exported to midi. > > 8. How do you change key shortcuts?? The default Play and Stop seem to > be "control enter" and "insert", which are almost totally not useful to > me. If it could be space to start AND stop, and when it stops revert > back to when you first started, it would cure a lot of frustration. > Also, "insert" for the key to stop is right next to the "home" key, so > if I'm playing, sometimes I jump back to the beginning when I actually > just wanted to halt playback. > > Unfortunately I think you can't do it since rosegaden went from KDE to Qt.. Maybe it's possible to hack some configuration file? Lorenzo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user