Rosegarden

The Rosegarden team has announced the release of version 10.10 “Betty Prior” of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.

Changes since Rosegarden v10.04

  • Several fixes to behaviour of track program/bank change sends in save/load and in interaction with percussion check-box.
  • Permit shift-click on a track header to toggle selection of segments on that track without effecting other selected segments.
  • Improve key highlights in matrix view so as to reflect current segment properly.
  • Add support for basic LADISH level 1.
  • Substantial fixes to audio file handling code to fix a number of problems with the wrong audio clip being played.
  • Fix crash in some cases when opening file dialog if not using default Thorn style.
  • Fix incorrect behaviour of frequency-range parameters in LADSPA and DSSI plugin editors.
  • Fixes to missing-audio-file location logic.
  • Shorten the factory autoload, removing the duplicate sets of tracks at the bottom so that all tracks initially are visible.
  • Fix MIDI recording from devices in which note-on and note-off are not always cleanly paired.
  • Fixes to positioning of playback pointer in matrix.
  • Several substantial fixes to step-recording in matrix and notation.
  • Several fixes to Lilypond export.
  • Numerous fixes to segment editor corner cases that previously could introduce zero-length segments.
  • Several fixes to corner cases that previously could introduce zero-length events or ranges.
  • Fixes to unpredictable behaviour in certain operations involving copying segments.
  • Numerous fixes to behaviour of editing operations in cases where segments overlap with the end of the composition.
  • Make behaviour of Paste Range more predictable.
  • Improvements to chord database and several fixes to fretboard editor.
  • Fixes to avoid zero-duration note events in files.
  • Fixes to toolbar visibility in editing views.
  • Fixes to regressions in action availability.
  • Fixes to updates in notation view, event list editor, matrix editor and rulers.
  • Restore progress dialogs.

Rosegarden for Linux is available to download at no cost.

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