Re: [Rosegarden-user] Saving projects
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023, Ted Felix wrote: > How about having rg rename the original file to have the current date/time, > then saving the new. This way each time you save, you have a backup of the I don't want that. I hope any feature like it can easily be turned off. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] channel: auto/fixed
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, Ted Felix wrote: > We could remove that combobox and only make it appear based on an > experimental preference. That would be less confusing. If no one objects. > Votes for/against would be helpful. I've certainly never found it useful, and have had problems caused by accidentally turning it on. Making it harder to turn on would seem to be me to be a win. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Project Lock file
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, Will Godfrey wrote: > I would like to suggest moving these into /tmp > That way, when restarting the computer they will be cleared. Some systems erase /tmp on reboot, but it's hardly universal. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Canon like midis?
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, krsg...@trixtar.org wrote: > songs of a particular nature: ones that use > all of but only the standard chords for the > key in question. I would then transpose a few How do you define "the standard chords" for a key? The obvious thing that occurs to me would be the seven triads that can be made with the scale degrees (three major, three minor, and one diminished); but the dominant seventh chord is not on that list and is probably more commonly-used than the diminished triad. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Gruesome gotcha: Import MIDI
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I am not the OP, but you confused at least me. I think you (strongly) agree > that "Import MIDI" is a bad name, you don't like the proposed new name, but I > had to do a lot of "gratuitous" reading to figure that out. My main point has to do with using the concept of a "session" separate from a file. I think Rosegarden shouldn't. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Gruesome gotcha: Import MIDI
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, Håkan Söderström via Rosegarden-user wrote: > I make this note while still a beginner: Rosegarden would need a terminology > overhaul in order not to trip up new users completely. > > "Import MIDI" really means: "New session based on MIDI file". It scraps > whatever you did before importing, warning that "File has not been saved". > "File"? It's the session that's not saved. Rosegarden needs to be consistent I strongly disagree. Rosegarden is an application on my desktop. What applications do is they open files, edit files, and then save files. That is how my word processor, my spreadsheet, and everything else on my desktop work or should work. If I start up an application I've never tried before and it wants me to define a "project" or a "session" or something instead of a new file, then I'm put on notice: I'm dealing with software that is going to defy the basic expectations of how applications work, and it's going to be - gratuitously - hard for me to adapt to using it. Applications that don't adopt the standard model of editing files are hostile applications. Anything that wants to use "sessions" or "projects" or something instead of just opening and closing files had better have a very good reason for demanding a nonstandard interaction model, and in practice, the reason is never good enough. Now, when I open a file, I want it to replace whatever was opened before, or else be in a new and separate window that I can edit independently. I do *not* want to merge it with data I was already working on. The operation to merge should be called "merge," not "open." As for "import," I'd rather not have that at all - it means bring something in from a foreign place, i.e. a format that the software does not really support properly, and I wish the software *would* support a format like MIDI properly and load it with the regular "open" instead of needing a separate "import." But if there does have to be a separate "import" for something that needs to be really foreign, I still want it to function to the extent possible as opening a new file, not to somehow mix the file I'm opening with something that was open before. Many frustrations of using Rosegarden come from state carried over from previously-edited files into newly opened files, and that because the software was trying to use a different concept of a "session" bigger than and sepaarate from a file. A new file should be new. For the specific case of adding tracks to a file from another file that happens to be in a foreign format, I've seen other software use the term "Import as new track." That sounds a little unnatural, but so is the operation it describes, and it's clearer and less surprising than just calling such an operation "import." -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before tribes. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Unwanted CCs - update - !!!AHA!!!
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: I was wondering about that, now that you mention it. Controller banks? Does anything support more than 127 controllers? Are bank changes Controllers have standardized numbers - e.g. 7 is master volume - so the main issue isn't really that a single device has more than 127 controllers (although yes, some DO), but that there are more than 127 different kinds of controllers in the world. It's made worse by the fact that a single controller number only handles a 7-bit value, so if you need finer granularity than that, you need to assign two or more of the 127 controller numbers to the more and less significant chunks of a finer-grained value. And it's also true that controller numbers ended up being used for other things, such as selecting banks for the separate program change messages. The namespace of 127 controllers ran out very fast. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Disabling auto-scroll
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote: from the tool bar - but it appears you're talking about something else, how the screen tries to recenter when you move to the edge. I don't know. Indeed. The edge for the purposes of this feature appears to be a fixed size, regardless of the screen size; so on a small screen, an unreasonably large fraction of the screen area ends up being edge and not useful for any editing operations other than scrolling. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
