On 19/08/19 10:46, axs203 . wrote:
Hi there
Forgive me for coming in just like this as a new user.
Over the years I've followed RosegardenI was there with
Studio2Go.it's a lovely looking program and I could really use it
day to day..the only thing that I find very fiddly with the software
is drawing a loop range.
A lot of sequencers make this harder than it should be in my opinion.
Rosegarden requires a shift key ( from memory) to be held and the actual
size above the ruler to drag out a loop range is quite narrow
vertically.I find it most fiddly and it always has irked me about
the excellent sequencer.
Interesting... it is actually the way I always use to create (and
de-activate) loops most, maybe because I'm a bit of a keyboard shortcut
'aficionado', and I like that it's consistent in all views and the fact
you can quickly 'de-activate a loop' by shift+clicking (without
dragging) anywhere on the loop range. Also horizontally it is 'quantized
to a quarter so it's easy to set up measures and beats.
Of course configure-ability of vertical heights (including said range
ruler, tempo ruler, tracks, would be really nice (and somewhat
intersects with discussions about higher resolution screens.
Do you think this could be discussed for your opinion please? If there
was a way of just going up to the top, having a nice wide vertical loop
row, just dragging and dropping with one mouse button to set the start
and end - without needing the keyboard or pixel perfect precision) - it
would be much better. Looping is something I personally do a lot in
sequencers and if it's not easy to use I don't use them. It's a shame as
it stops me from from enjoying what is an excellent Linux native sequencer.
Another way of quickly setting up a loop involves the use of the
Transport window (View > Show Transport - or if you can concede to a
keyboard shortcut, 't' toggles it). once that's visible you can set the
in and out loop points respectively with the two buttons to the
left(/right of the loop on/off button.
I know you don't seem to like using a (QUERTY) keyboard, but a very
quick way of doing it for measures is move around with PAGEUP and
PAGEDOWN to the start/end of the loop, then set start/end from the
transport window.
Also, one advantage of activating/deactivating a loop with the transport
is that when you deactivate the loop from the transport window is that
in this way the loop range is 'remembered' for next time you want to
re-activate it.
Personally I actually think (did I mention I'm a keyboard guy? :) ) it
would be nice to have keyboard shortcuts to set loop start/end and
activate/deactivate together with the time navigation.
Finally, rosegarden can be hooked to any JACK transport source and that
could be used as a looping master, but that might be overkill...
Hope this helps.
Lorenzo.
Thanks for listening!
Mike
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