Information About

Rosegarden




name = Rosegarden
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  Caption Rosegarden 10 under Linux
  Developer Chris Cannam, Richard Bown, Guillaume Laurent
  Latest Release Version 123
  Latest Release Date February 14 , 2006
  Operating System GNU/Linux
  Genre Digital Audio Workstation
  License GPL
  Website wwwrosegardenmusiccom


Rosegarden is an Open Source Digital Audio Workstation program developed for GNU/Linux with ALSA and KDE . It acts as an Audio and MIDI Sequencer , Scorewriter and Musical Composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free replacement for such applications as Cubase .

Rosegarden does not include a Software Synthesizer , but works with soft synthesizers such as IIWU Synth and Timidity . The most current version (Rosegarden-4 1.2.3) supports the DSSI soft synthesizer interface.

The current version, Rosegarden-4, is the recommended version for use and development; it requires ALSA, and only runs in a very limited manner on non-Linux systems {Link without Title} . Rosegarden-2 is several years old and has limited features, but works stably on a wide variety of Unix-like operating systems and other platforms such as OpenVMS .

The Rosegarden project was started in 1993 at the University Of Bath . Rosegarden-2.1 was released under the GPL in 1997; Rosegarden-4 began in April 2000. Version 1.0 was released on February 14 , 2005 ( St. Valentine's Day ).

Rosegarden's lead developers are Chris Cannam, Richard Bown and Guillaume Laurent.


FEATURES

  • MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK

  • Piano-roll, score, event list and track overview editors

  • DSSI synth and audio effects plugin support, including Windows VST effects and instrument support via dssi-vst

  • LADSPA audio effects plugin support

  • JACK transport support for synchronisation with other software

  • Ability to build and run without JACK, for MIDI-only use

  • Score interpretation of performance MIDI data

  • Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability

  • Triggered segments for pattern sequencing & performable ornaments

  • Audio and MIDI mixers

  • MIDI and Hydrogen file import

  • MIDI, Csound , Lilypond and MusicXML file export (including PostScript and PDF output file generation of score)

  • User interface translations for Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, as well as UK and US English

  • Help documentation available substantially or entirely translated into German, Swedish and Japanese as well as English



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