Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD

2012-05-17 Thread jimmy
On 17 May 2012 09:10, Gary G. wrote: > How do you attach anything to this Listserv? Actually is it a Listserv or > an NNTP server? If you use gmame to read and post to this mailing list, I don't see any obvious way to attach files through their simple web interface. As Chris C. said, you can

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Cannam
On 17 May 2012 09:10, Gary G. wrote: > How do you attach anything to this Listserv?  Actually is it a Listserv or > an NNTP server? It's a mailing list, i.e. like a listserv though not actually running listserv software. http://rosegardenmusic.com/support/lists/ Gmane provides a web interface a

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD

2012-05-17 Thread Gary G .
jimmy writes: > > > > Post and attach tar/zip copy of those files to this mailing list, so other people can help out, or learn by fumble-around on their own if they want. It's Rosegarden related, so it's not off-topic on this list. > > Jimmy How do you attach anything to this Listserv?

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD

2012-05-16 Thread jimmy
> Gary G. wrote: > > Actually I just checked and that script is still included in > the current > rosegarden source code tarball, you can find it under > /scripts/. > > Here are some instructions on how to use it: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.rosegarden.user/5102 > > If the rgd

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-16 Thread Gary G .
Andy writes: > > >david wrote: > You should do a bug report on the bug reporting system of your distro (Ubuntu > / Debian) asking the distro packagers to include this script in the next > package update. > > The script is quite hidden as all other scripts in the /scripts/ directory in > the sou

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-16 Thread Andy
>david wrote: >> On 05/15/2012 09:31 PM, Gary G. wrote: >> The thing is, that most of us don't install Rosegarden from Tarballs. >> 99% of us use whatever package manager comes with our distros. I can >> state categorically that there is no such script included with the >> *buntu distros out there

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-16 Thread david
On 05/15/2012 09:31 PM, Gary G. wrote: > Andy writes: > >> >> Gary G. wrote: >>> >>> It looks like 7 years ago the developers of Rosegarden had indeed been >>> developing such a script. >>> >>> A fellow by the name of Pedro Lopez-Cabanillos was working on exactly this >>> problem with a perl scrip

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-16 Thread Gary G .
Andy writes: > > Gary G. wrote: > > > > It looks like 7 years ago the developers of Rosegarden had indeed been > > developing such a script. > > > > A fellow by the name of Pedro Lopez-Cabanillos was working on exactly this > > problem with a perl script called ins2rgd.pl Somehow it seems the

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-15 Thread Andy
Gary G. wrote: > > It looks like 7 years ago the developers of Rosegarden had indeed been > developing such a script. > > A fellow by the name of Pedro Lopez-Cabanillos was working on exactly this > problem with a perl script called ins2rgd.pl Somehow it seems the project > simply vanished or los

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-15 Thread Gary G .
Gary G. writes: > Perhaps some genius script programmer out there could write a conversion > utility that converts Cakewalk/Sonar INS files into RGDs? > Such a utility would allow instant access to a library of thousands of > MIDI instruments and save us all the mind numbing task of entering

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-14 Thread Gary G .
D. Michael McIntyre writes: > > On Sunday, May 13, 2012, Gary G. wrote: > > > One thing I've already noticed is that... the txt2rgd.py script doesn't seem > > to call in any archivers... I'm sort of wondering if it even works as > > intended to begin with. > > Yes, Rosegarden can read these fi

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-13 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Sunday, May 13, 2012, Gary G. wrote: > One thing I've already noticed is that... the txt2rgd.py script doesn't seem > to call in any archivers... I'm sort of wondering if it even works as > intended to begin with. Yes, Rosegarden can read these files whether they're compressed or not. Compre

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-13 Thread Gary G .
Andy writes: > > btw, here's the tech spec for the Cakewalk INS Format: > > > > http://www.raisedbar.net/InsDef.htm > > Sounds like a good idea, I would do it in Perl if I was doing it, since I have > decent Perl knowledge and no Python knowledge and Perl is the perfect language > for text file

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-12 Thread Andy
Gary G. wrote: > > So the more I look at this problem, the easier path seems to be simply > downloading a tutorial on python, spend a week learning the language, > and writing the utility myself. > > Figure with having to learn the API and system calls and researching > the file formats (I know sw

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-12 Thread Gary G .
Gary G. writes: > > david writes: > > > > > On 05/12/2012 11:56 AM, david wrote: > > > On 05/12/2012 11:04 AM, Gary G. wrote: > > >> Perhaps this would be better targeted to the developers' list but here's > > >> another thought on RGD files. > > >> > > >> Perhaps some genius script programme

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-12 Thread Gary G .
david writes: > > On 05/12/2012 11:56 AM, david wrote: > > On 05/12/2012 11:04 AM, Gary G. wrote: > >> Perhaps this would be better targeted to the developers' list but here's > >> another thought on RGD files. > >> > >> Perhaps some genius script programmer out there could write a conversion >

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-12 Thread david
On 05/12/2012 11:56 AM, david wrote: > On 05/12/2012 11:04 AM, Gary G. wrote: >> Perhaps this would be better targeted to the developers' list but here's >> another thought on RGD files. >> >> Perhaps some genius script programmer out there could write a conversion >> utility that converts Cakewalk

Re: [Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-12 Thread david
On 05/12/2012 11:04 AM, Gary G. wrote: > Perhaps this would be better targeted to the developers' list but here's > another thought on RGD files. > > Perhaps some genius script programmer out there could write a conversion > utility that converts Cakewalk/Sonar INS files into RGDs? Or perhaps > ev

[Rosegarden-user] One Further Thought on RGD Files

2012-05-12 Thread Gary G .
Perhaps this would be better targeted to the developers' list but here's another thought on RGD files. Perhaps some genius script programmer out there could write a conversion utility that converts Cakewalk/Sonar INS files into RGDs? Or perhaps even one of the Rosegarden Developers could write a