Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden 24.06 Released

2024-06-27 Thread ram
Hi all, Rosegarden Version 24.06 "Hermosa" Qt Version 5.14.2 compiles and runs on a machine running Pop!_OS 20.10 Linux. That is a relatively old version of Pop!_OS. Seems to work OK. I'll put it through its paces for serious work before I compile and run it on the most recent versions/revision

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Regression Testing Appreciated

2024-03-28 Thread ram
Hi all, With respect to: > Incidentally I also switched to Pipewire recently so I'm putting that > into the equation as I'm still understanding some of its intricacies and > how to best get a workflow out of it :-) - this has nothing to do with > Rosegarden directly but I guess it's something to

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Weird MIDI bug

2023-09-23 Thread ram
You guys are amazing! Thanks! > On 23/09/2023 10:06, Will Godfrey wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 09:40:39 +0200 >> Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> >>> Sorry for the x-posting to rosegarden-devel >>> >>> On 23/09/2023 09:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 23/09/2023 08:50, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > I W

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Done with Rosegarden

2023-07-18 Thread ram
Hi Lorenzo et. al., Almost exclusively the notation editor with plenty of rulers and controllers. Regards, Rich > On 17/07/2023 07:21, r...@hydrophones.com wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> What I was working on using primarily Rosegarden is now up for your >> downloading pleasure: >> >> https://www.h

[Rosegarden-user] Done with Rosegarden

2023-07-16 Thread ram
Hi guys, What I was working on using primarily Rosegarden is now up for your downloading pleasure: https://www.hydrophones.com/public/Symphonic_Etude_1__Heroic_Fools.ogg Demonstrates Rosegarden is good for large scale symphonic works. Thanks again for all your help! Rich r...@hydrophones.com

Re: [Rosegarden-user] audio subsystem not available - can't record audio

2023-07-15 Thread ram
Hi All On another system running Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS Linux, QjackCtl version 0.9.6, the SAME version of Rosegarden (Version 23.06 "Flutterbye", Build Key 13280f9033,Qt Version 5.15.9) runs fine and does record. So the problem was definitely in the older version of Pop!_OS Linux and not Rosegarden.

Re: [Rosegarden-user] audio subsystem not available - can't record audio

2023-07-15 Thread ram
Hi Ted, As requested: Rosegarden 20.06 - AlsaDriver [ALSA library version 1.2.2, module version 5.11.0-7620-generic, kernel version 5.11.0-7620-generic] === JackDriver::initialise() begin... JACK sample rate = 88200Hz, buffer size = 204

Re: [Rosegarden-user] audio subsystem not available - can't record audio

2023-07-15 Thread ram
> Sat, 15 Jul 2023 07:38:51 - > r...@hydrophones.com : > > >> Hi all, >> >> In further bizarre behavior, if I type the command rosegarden in a >> terminal, rosegarden comes up but NOT in superuser mode, if I then >> import >> a rg file, it seems to come up normally which contrasts that if I mou

Re: [Rosegarden-user] audio subsystem not available - can't record audio

2023-07-15 Thread ram
> On 7/14/23 18:25, r...@hydrophones.com wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm getting the following error message when I try to activate recording >> on an audio track: >> >> "audio subsystem not available - can't record audio" >> >> in a window that has the header: >> >> Rosegarden (as superuser) >> >> Th

Re: [Rosegarden-user] audio subsystem not available - can't record audio

2023-07-14 Thread ram
> On 7/14/23 18:25, r...@hydrophones.com wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm getting the following error message when I try to activate recording >> on an audio track: >> >> "audio subsystem not available - can't record audio" >> >> in a window that has the header: >> >> Rosegarden (as superuser) >> >> Th

[Rosegarden-user] audio subsystem not available - can't record audio

2023-07-14 Thread ram
Hi guys, I'm getting the following error message when I try to activate recording on an audio track: "audio subsystem not available - can't record audio" in a window that has the header: Rosegarden (as superuser) This is happening with Rosegarden Version 23.06 "Flutterbye" Build Key 13280f9033

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Audio score creation

2021-03-21 Thread ram
> Hello I am looking for linux software that can take an audio track and > convert it to sheet music. Does Rosegarden allow this? > Your best bet is to use SonicVisualiser (which is also available as an easy to use AppImage so you can avoid dependency hell) to generate MIDI from the audio. RoseGa

Re: [Rosegarden-user] beginners question : getting sound

2021-02-08 Thread ram
Hi all, This whole packaging and dependency thing is why I suggested that RoseGarden also be made available as an AppImage. Even for experienced Linux music users and developers getting the most recent versions of RoseGarden to "work" leads to dependency hell. Try to compile it on a somewhat old

Re: [Rosegarden-user] A small request

2021-01-22 Thread ram
That would be a nice feature. I too have fond memories of OS/2 Warp. Matter of fact, I still have an IBM 765D Laptop running it in my studio. These days it is only used as a MIDI filter to talk to legacy analog hardware. > Hmm, useful if not set to remove references automatically. > > More use

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 20.12 (Altissimo) RELEASED

2020-12-09 Thread ram
Seems to me, that once one has a running executable, getting an AppImage is straightforward: https://appimage.org/ > > For those that like AppImages, SNAPS, flatpacks and other such wasteful > (IMHO) things: have fun with them. > > I've been unable to make them reliably work on my Debian system

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 20.12 (Altissimo) RELEASED

2020-12-09 Thread ram
Hi all, Thanks to the whole team for your continuing efforts to improve Rosegarden. One thing, however, I would like to see happen: the release of Rosegarden as an AppImage so users with work machines not connected to the Internet and perhaps not as up to date as developer machines, can run the l

[Rosegarden-user] [Fwd: Re: How long have you been using Rosegarden?]

2020-11-24 Thread ram
Since Studio to Go 1.5 at least, maybe a bit longer, which is close to the very beginning. I mostly use it to create MIDI inputs to legacy analog synthesizers, some standalone (now classic) digital/analog hybrid synthesizers, and, of course, quite a range of Linux soft synthesizers. I use the r

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Crucial: Help needed with Rosegarden Crashing:

2020-08-11 Thread ram
Hi guys, I totally agree with what Mr. Jones has said. It works for me too. Been doing that since early days decades ago. Stay safe all. Best regards, Rich > > > Hey, Michael! Long time no hear but yeah 80 hour weeks are killers... > > Ideas for our original poster to possibly produce an a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden App Icon

2020-05-22 Thread ram
I like option 1 best. If the stem was bent differently then it could look like clef, which would then suggest music. Stay safe, and best regards, Rich > On 5/22/20 3:02 PM, Ted Felix wrote: >> Just posted some new ideas for the rosegarden app icon on the wiki. Head over to the logo page and

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden App Icon

2020-05-22 Thread ram
I like option 1 best. If the stem was bent differently then it could look like clef, which would then suggest music. Stay safe, and best regards, Rich > On 5/22/20 3:02 PM, Ted Felix wrote: >> Just posted some new ideas for the rosegarden app icon on the wiki. >> Head over to the logo page a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden still to 'aggressive' in sending Bank and Program changes?

2020-05-17 Thread ram
Hi Ted, I'd like to do that but the Sourceforge platform will not let me register or login -- it is seriously unfriendly, at least to this Linux user. > On 5/17/20 7:46 AM, r...@hydrophones.com wrote: >> I agree. > >Lorenzo will be opening a feature request for this. Be sure to vote > for

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden still to 'aggressive' in sending Bank and Program changes?

2020-05-17 Thread ram
I agree. > Rosegarden sends a Bank selection (CC 0 + CC 32) and Program change > every single time playback starts from the beginning (i.e. measure 1, > and this includes if you are looping with a measure which includes > measure 1). > > This _can_ be disabled by deselecting Bank and Program che

Re: [Rosegarden-user] JACK MIDI... Why?

2020-03-22 Thread ram
Hi Ted, et. al. JACK MIDI is essential for "talking" to wide range of software synthesisers, e.g. the Bristol package (http://bristol.sourceforge.net/). There are work arounds to its absence, such as a2jmidid (https://github.com/linuxaudio/a2jmidid/), but those are a pain to use and are very sen

Re: [Rosegarden-user] LV2... Why?

2020-03-13 Thread ram
Yeah, I do something similar. I record the raw audio tracks with Rosegarden and then when I have all the tracks (and then some), I pull them into Audacity for editing, mixing, and processing. Outputs are usually stereo, 5.1, and 7.1 flac files to be merged with video. I use a Linux cluster and q

Re: [Rosegarden-user] LV2... Why?

2020-03-13 Thread ram
Hi all, Just my two cents. We use Rosegarden regularly for the creation of video, game, and museum display, soundtracks. We don't use LV2 plugins, and very seldom use any plugins at all. I, personally, would prefer if Rosegarden interfaced better with Jack/MIDI and the like as most of the synth

Re: [Rosegarden-user] ROSEGARDEN 19.12, codename "Yesterday" RELEASED

2019-12-14 Thread ram
Hi all, This is great news. Hopefully I get to try it. Busy right now fighting fires (literally) in the Blue Mountains of NSW Australia. Wishing all of you the best. Regards, Rich Marschall > The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 19.12 > of Rosegarden, a MIDI seque

Re: [Rosegarden-user] New Rosegarden Logo

2019-03-24 Thread ram
I like the artistic direction this is heading. > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 15:03:08 -1000 > david wrote: > >>On 3/23/19 1:51 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >>> Speaking of the redesign, are you planning to go in a different >>> direction with the splash screen?  I tried to do a new one for every >>

Re: [Rosegarden-user] New Rosegarden Logo

2019-03-16 Thread ram
Hi all, I'd like to see what David W. Jones comes up with. Traditionally "old" but "new" probably would be the way to go. Rich > On 3/15/19 4:24 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> On 15/03/19 14:40, Ted Felix wrote: >>> On 3/14/19 3:40 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Looks good... I guess a 'square

Re: [Rosegarden-user] New Rosegarden Logo

2019-03-15 Thread ram
> On 3/14/19 3:40 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> Looks good... I guess a 'square' concept, i.e. without the text which >> would be used for icons etc. would be useful ;) > >I was thinking that too. Not sure the "g" should be so prominent. > However... Elephant! > >> About the colour.. wondering

[Rosegarden-user] I for one like it!

2019-03-05 Thread ram
> I've raised the bar on what constitutes my chef d'oeuvre. I put this > together after the guy who got me into computer music back in the '80s > gave his brain the old lead swirlie. Damn, I hate it that he killed > himself, but, uh, thanks for the inspiration? He was a far better > musician, bu

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Jack freewheel and jack-midi and general thoughts

2019-02-23 Thread ram
Hi guys, I agree, JACK-MIDI would be more immediately useful that some other features. Right now, I use that JACK-ALSA bridge program to gain that bit of extra functionality, but that is a bit awkward and kludgey. Rich Marschall > On 2/23/19 2:27 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> So the the questio

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Xruns on close

2017-02-04 Thread ram
You'd probably get a useful answer on LAD or jack-devel mailing lists. They would be the ones to ask. > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 20:08:04 -0400 > "D. Michael McIntyre" wrote: > >> On 07/16/2016 04:22 PM, Abrolag wrote: >> >> > I put a report about this on the bug list some time ago. Is there any

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Video editing on Linux

2016-08-16 Thread ram
Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > Once upon a time I really got into cinelerra, then it got harder and > harder to compile it as well as to import/export so I moved to kdenlive > (with a bit of Openshot here and there). The nice thing about kdelive is > that it seems to 'just' work (the drawback is that y

[Rosegarden-user] Video editing on Linux

2016-08-14 Thread ram
Hi Michael, With respect to: > After trying to edit my video on Linux, I have concluded it is time to > move this project to Windows. Video editors for Linux are either not > sophisticated enough or too sophisticated, and there is nothing in the > middle ground. > Try Cinelerra (https://cineler

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Import extra MIDI tracks into an existing Rosegarden composition

2016-04-30 Thread ram
> Hi Guys, > > I have an existing composition in Rosegarden. I've created a few other > parts in other software that now exist as MIDI files. How do I import > those tracks (as extra tracks) into the existing composition in > Rosegarden? > > I know I could brute force it by playing the new MIDI m

[Rosegarden-user] Import extra MIDI tracks into an existing Rosegarden composition

2016-04-29 Thread ram
Hi Guys, I have an existing composition in Rosegarden. I've created a few other parts in other software that now exist as MIDI files. How do I import those tracks (as extra tracks) into the existing composition in Rosegarden? I know I could brute force it by playing the new MIDI material on one

Re: [Rosegarden-user] BPM: Rosegarden vs. Hydrogen

2016-04-18 Thread ram
real well as a MIDI synth to be played by RoseGarden, at least when using Jack/NetJack. I do this all the time. For larger percussion sections I find it easier to use RoseGarden for the sequencing than Hydrogen's native interface. RAM --

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Humanizing MIDI tracks

2016-04-14 Thread ram
With respect to all the issues with respect to notation, compositional aids, humanized tracks, etc: I kinda hate to bring it up, but perhaps the RoseGarden developers should take a look at another Open Source project --- Impro-Visor and "lift a whole bunch of tools out of it. As computers continu

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Ugly notation formatting

2016-04-11 Thread ram
> On Apr 10, 2016 23:07, Silas Mortimer wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 5:46 AM, chuck elliot >> wrote: >> > Actually there are devices that do this. I have a Roland GI 10 >> > guitar/midi interface which is basically a real time pitch to midi >> > converter. It handles pitch bend too and do

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Humanizing MIDI tracks

2016-03-27 Thread ram
> > On 25.03.2016 09:00, r...@hydrophones.com wrote: >> The "interpret" function under the notation editor in the menu "adjust" >> probably will do what you want, at least if you want your piece to sound >> like it was played by human orchestral professionals. > > No, I am afraid that will not be

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Humanizing MIDI tracks

2016-03-25 Thread ram
The "interpret" function under the notation editor in the menu "adjust" probably will do what you want, at least if you want your piece to sound like it was played by human orchestral professionals. If you want something more "amateur" that can also be achieved but by using an appropriate "amateur

[Rosegarden-user] Repeat segments, ideally in bulk

2016-03-03 Thread ram
Hi all, I'm using Rosegarden "Peace", Version 15.12, Qt version 4.6.3, Build key 2a2e61f9e6. I want to take a short multibar composition and repeat it a few times so that I can go back in an introduce variations but keep the drums and bassline for a while. I used to do this with an old version o

Re: [Rosegarden-user] problem with basic functionality (tracks, instruments, ZynAddSubFX connection)

2016-01-09 Thread ram
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2016, Leszek Wroński wrote: > >> *BONUS QUESTION* >> Now, this will probably be idiotic, but I need to ask this. Can I >> somehow >> just play General MIDI instruments? Is this done by Timidity? I fired it >> up >> but it doesn't show in the 'Audio' menu of Jack, so I can't tell it

[Rosegarden-user] RoseGarden with Plug-Ins -- fewer dungleflungies

2015-11-29 Thread ram
> D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > > > I finally broke down and was going to use Ardour for some task. It > refused to run in my environment. The environment I use to develop > Rosegarden isn't good enough to run Ardour, because some of my > dungleflungies were not prescribulated. > > If you want a t

[Rosegarden-user] RoseGarden with Plug-Ins -- stability

2015-11-28 Thread ram
Hi guys, The stability of RoseGarden with its plug-ins is pretty good. The following was recently done using only RoseGarden plug-ins (on Debian Squeeze): ftp://www.hydrophones.com/Mozart-K488--88p2kHz.flac It is almost a half hour long and beat the living daylights out of the plug-in functiona

[Rosegarden-user] RoseGarden compilation problem

2015-10-22 Thread ram
src/base/Instrument.cpp:816: error: within this context make: *** [src/base/Instrument.o] Error 1 ram@Duo:~/rosegarden-15.10$ Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Rich Marschall r...@hydrophones.com -- ___

[Rosegarden-user] RoseGarden compilation problem

2015-10-22 Thread ram
src/base/Instrument.cpp:816: error: within this context make: *** [src/base/Instrument.o] Error 1 ram@Duo:~/rosegarden-15.10$ Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Rich Marschall r...@hydrophones.com --

Re: [Rosegarden-user] How should I use RoseGarden

2015-09-17 Thread ram
Hi Anton, My friends and I use Rosegarden with JACK and pretty much forget about the plugins. We use a combination of external hardware synths and soft synths. Fluidsynth with soundfonts remains popular (the website http://wowsia.com provides an almost endless supply, I think they have over a Ter

Re: [Rosegarden-user] RG 14.12

2015-06-18 Thread ram
I can't turn out a > story that goes for more than about 15 pages. Writing is harder than it > looks, and it eats vast amounts of time. > -- Hey! With a plot like that we could make an OPERA, and use RoseGarden to do it ;-D ram --

Re: [Rosegarden-user] An oddity!

2015-06-18 Thread ram
n email this >> long. > > They would if it was on Facebook. Or on one of their friend's blogs. > (I've read some of my daughter's friends blogs since way back when the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] An oddity!

2015-06-17 Thread ram
media creation application. I fully agree: "Long live RoseGarden!" RAM -- ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The post-PCI era

2014-10-30 Thread ram
New PCI motherboards are still available, and many wholesalers have "new old stock" of what were high end, i.e. extreme gaming, motherboards from just a few years ago. Also many, somewhat older, server motherboards have PCI slots. I've found new(ish) high end motherboards to work extremely well

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Spread the word with a screencast

2014-10-21 Thread ram
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Abrolag wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:16:37 +0200 (CEST) >> Holger Marzen wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > the Screencast I made some time ago has been placed onto >> > http://www.libremusicproduction.com/tools/rosegarden >> > >> > (Don't beat me, I made a screencast of

Re: [Rosegarden-user] snd-rtctimer

2014-07-14 Thread ram
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2014, German wrote: > >> Hello list. Just installed Rosegarden. However when I start it, it says: >> "Rosegarden was unable to find a high-resolution >> timing source for MIDI performance." It then advice me to load the >> module, modeprobe snd-rtctimer. However I don't have such a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] snd-rtctimer

2014-07-12 Thread ram
own errors which are bigger. Perhaps if you a sequencing an entire orchestra it might, perhaps, just maybe ;-) ram -- ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforg

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden friendly distros

2013-02-25 Thread ram
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:13 AM, David Tisdell > wrote: > >> I have tried Ubuntustudio before but have had lots of issues with >> networking. Seems like there are few if any network drivers enabled in >> the >> Ubuntustudio Kernel. This is why I installed straight Ubuntu and added >> the >> musi

[Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden friendly Linux distributions

2013-02-23 Thread ram
Continuing to respond to David's request for info on Linux distributions that are easy to operate Rosegarden on, I mostly use Debian Squeeze but sometimes Knoppix. Knoppix is easier to install. The latest Knoppix is based on Debian Wheezy and works like a charm. --

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Encouragement

2013-01-27 Thread ram
> On 26/01/13 19:35, Holger Marzen wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Abrolag wrote: >> > > [...] > >> I encounter that's made with Rosegarden or other Open Source >> Software avoids instruments that need exact timings. > > Sure it's so general? Isn't this doable by setting JACK latency low? I > thinki

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Audio files: why conv-...

2012-12-24 Thread ram
Holger said: > > to keep audio files in my project directory I always change their > path in Composition->Edit Document Properties->Audio. > > But Rosegarden has some problems with recorded and deleted audio files. > Some of them are forgotten, and after a hand full of retries (record > audio, ctrl

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Guitar notation vs. sound

2012-09-24 Thread ram
Is now the time to point out many people play guitar with "alternative tunings"? I know I do, it makes it MUCH easier. Notice how many performers keep switching guitars between songs, that is probably because the guitars are tuned differently - i.e. to make the song easy to play. That being sai

Re: [Rosegarden-user] The future of Linux sure looks bleak...

2012-08-30 Thread ram
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:36:26 -0400 > John wrote: >> >> I still use Linux for the mental challenges it provides me, but for programs that I need for my personal use, I prefer to pay in real money and not by time spent to make programs work. >> I have reached the point in life where I become immun

Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden's Future

2012-05-08 Thread ram
Rosegarden does pretty much all I need it to do. Yes, it has a few niggling (and apparently very hard to find) bugs, but no showstoppers that are easily worked around. As far as a future direction and additional features, you guys should check out the Impro-Visor project and maybe give it a spin