Re: [Rosegarden-user] JACK-MIDI?

2012-09-16 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On 09/16/2012 02:35 PM, Holger Marzen wrote:

> is Rosegarden able to use JACK-MIDI instead of ALSA-MIDI? Maybe in the
> future? Some people say that JACK-MIDI has some advantages regarding
> latency/jitter.

My recollection is that it was something we were vaguely thinking about 
doing around five years ago, but there just wasn't enough interest from 
developers and users alike for the idea to go anywhere.  As far as I 
know, it still hasn't, and likely won't, but a motivated individual 
wanting to get this done could probably make it happen.  I think our 
driver structure is set up such that it should at least be theoretically 
possible to support different backends.

Richard Bown is the only one who's ever done anything like that, to my 
knowledge.  Other people have ported Rosegarden to other platforms, like 
BSD and OS-X, but nobody has ever gotten it working as anything more 
than a silent GUI.  Nobody except Richard, that is.

He is, therefore, the ultimate expert authority on porting Rosegarden's 
sequencing guts to other backends.  Apparently it was all complicated 
enough to justify what amounts to a fork, rather than being able to get 
it all done under one roof in one codebase.

It's neither my area of expertise nor my area of interest, I'm afraid.
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[Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden for Windows 12.04.99 Alpha 3, codename "WinFreedom" RELEASED

2012-09-16 Thread Richard Bown
I'm pleased to finally announce the availability of the latest Alpha
release of Rosegarden for Windows.

This is a working release of Rosegarden for Windows - it's still called an
Alpha release because it may well be buggy and audio file support or audio
sequencing is still not supported in any way.  The code base has been
merged with the latest Rosegarden trunk changes ("Freedom") as per 7th July
2012 but also:

  - MIDI Playback devices are now assignable (create new Midi Device and
assign tracks)
  - Most common MIDI playback events are now supported (no System
Exclusives)
  - MIDI Record now works for most events (no System Exclusives)
  - RtMidi updated to latest version (July 2012)
  - Merges from latest trunk release (please see 12.04.00 "Freedom" release
notes)

Rosegarden for Windows is a packaged installation for 32-bit Windows which
will work on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows platforms and has been tested on
Windows XP and Windows 7.  Rosegarden for Windows packages Lilypond
printing and print-previewing out of the box.

You can download Rosegarden for Windows from here (*):

  https://bitbucket.org/bownie/rosegarden-for-windows/downloads

Rosegarden for Windows Alpha 2 has had over 5000 downloads in the last nine
or so months but so far feedback has been limited - hopefully that can
change a bit with this latest, more functional release.  It would be great
to hear any feedback - good, bad or indifferent - just to work out if I
should spend any more time adding features no matter how slowly!

Please give it a try and provide me or the rosegarden-devel mailing list
with any feedback.  Thanks goes of course to all the core developers on the
Rosegarden team who are pumping out the actual features and improvements
and hopefully this version can continue to do them some justice.

Regards,
Richard Bown (@xyglo)
September 2012

(* - Sourceforge file upload didn't want to work for some reason but
perhaps the files/links could also be updated there)


Notes:

The main Rosegarden website is still at:

  http://www.rosegardenmusic.com

There is also a page here with latest Rosegarden for Windows specific
information:

  http://www.xyglo.com/rosegarden-for-windows/

Rosegarden for Windows code is now in a mercurial repository at BitBucket:

  https://bitbucket.org/bownie/rosegarden-for-windows

The old branch in SourceForge is now trailing and can be deleted if
required:


http://rosegarden.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rosegarden/branches/win32-mingw-rtmidi/
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] JACK-MIDI?

2012-09-16 Thread Richard Bown
Interestingly, RtMidi has a JACK MIDI wrapper in the latest version of its
API.  I've not looked at it yet but for audio integration in Rosegarden for
Windows it might make sense.

R


On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Holger Marzen  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> is Rosegarden able to use JACK-MIDI instead of ALSA-MIDI? Maybe in the
> future? Some people say that JACK-MIDI has some advantages regarding
> latency/jitter.
>
> Best Regards
> Holger
>
>
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[Rosegarden-user] JACK-MIDI?

2012-09-16 Thread Holger Marzen
Hi all,

is Rosegarden able to use JACK-MIDI instead of ALSA-MIDI? Maybe in the
future? Some people say that JACK-MIDI has some advantages regarding
latency/jitter.

Best Regards
Holger

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