Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future
I guess this problem affects all software development, but I wouldn't know that, because I'm not a professional by any means. I guess Rosegarden is my rude awakening to all the jubilation and glee I missed out on by being a liberal arts major. No great loss. Software is a pain in the ass. -- D. Michael McIntyre I guess people like me are part of the problem in this regard, turn up one day, chuck something in to do with linked segments and then f. off into the sunset. Fly-by-night, here today and gone tomorrow contributors :-( While dusting off my jack-midi code I noticed I was also halfway through implementing a scheme for copy/pasting linked segments more flexibly, but I got scared of committing it for fear of bringing the whole pack-o-cards down around my ears. If it's any consolation (which I'm sure it isn't), I'm currently making my living from code development, and the codes I work on which pay my wages are much much MUCH worse than Rosegarden under the hood. Doing it for a living though you do at least get the pleasant face-to-face company of your fellow developers to share a laugh with at tea break time. That helps A LOT. I guess one possible way to ameliorate the bejeesus, this codebase is an unmaintainable spaghetti! problem is automated testing. Given that RG is command driven it might be possible to put a command serialisation scheme in place to generate a sort of composition building script (basically a dump of the command stack). Sarcasm Merely requires a pure virtual serialise() function in the Command class, and the appropriate implementation in all 150,000 commands currently in RG /Sarcasm. Then if you do some work and the tests still pass, you can't have done too much wrong, even if you don't understand every other part of the code, you just know you haven't broken it too badly. Which part of the whole RG workflow is being the most unstable atm? Composition creation/editing? Recording/playback? Ian. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
[Rosegarden-user] Linked segments in 11.11
Hello all, Now that the first incarnation of Linked Segment functionality is out there in the wild in 11.11, I'm about to have a go at a few ideas to take it further. At the moment, the basic linked segment functionality is just about the minimum possible implementation - i.e. you can create a linked segment from an existing segment by Ctrl+Alt+dragging it, and you can unlink a linked segment by use of a Segment menu entry. If anyone starts making use of linked segments and/or has ideas for more features related to them, I'd be more than happy to hear. At the moment the feature is a bit secretive - if you don't know about the cryptic Ctrl-Alt-drag incantation, you're unlikely to find out about it by looking at anything in the ui. Hence the first extension I want to make is the ability to paste a segment as a link by some kind of Paste as links edit menu item (with an associated Ctrl+Alt+V shortcut). I'd also like to put in some kind of advanced paste as links functionality for pasting (say) N segments as links, or pasting them at a certain time or bar/beat. Basically finer control of the paste of the links. I guess we could do with some way of colour coordinating link groups, and be able to change colour of a link group all in one go. On the dev list we've had various blue sky discussions about relative transposition of links or time stretch/squashing links, all of which I'd love to revisit. Anyway, I hope at least some of you get some use out of it, even in its present basic form! Let me know if there are any bugs with it too. Thanks all, Ian. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
[Rosegarden-user] Ubuntu oneiric 11.10 and kernel v3
Hello all, Just upgraded my kubuntu to the latest release, and to my astonishment the ubuntu vanilla kernel seems capable of doing a reasonable job rosegarden+jack+qsynth type audio. This is with jack in RT mode with the default fairly conservative settings. I'm not trying to do almost-zero latency audio work here, just trying to play a non-trivial midi file (carnival of the animals as it happens), and it sounds ... well, fine really. This is the first time I've experienced anything other than practically useless rg/qsynth performance on a vanilla kernel (ubuntu version). First time I've not had to immediately try to compile my own low latency/high resolution/pre-emptive kernel after an upgrade just to use Rosegarden to play a midi file. I'm actually quite happy about this :-) I don't follow kernel development that closely - have things been done in kernel v3 to improve latency/resolution/preemption of the vanilla version does anyone know? I guess to do proper pro audio work you still need to roll your own rt or low latency kernel, but it would be nice if the bog standard kernel just played nicely with rosegarden out of the box, for the casual user. Of course there are plenty of reasons never to put yourself through the potential hell of a distribution upgrade with (k)ubuntu, but for once, for me at least, kernel-midi-rubbishness doesn't seem to be one of them. Unless I'm alone in my experience with previous vanilla kernels and rosegarden, and you've all been happily using vanilla kernels and rosegarden together for years, in which case ignore me and carry on as you were :-) Cheers, Ian.-- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
