[LAU] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden 1.6.0 released

Chris Cannam cannam at all-day-breakfast.com
Thu Dec 6 13:22:31 EST 2007


ROSEGARDEN 1.6.0 RELEASED

The Rosegarden team are giddy with probably short-lived delight at the release 
of version 1.6.0 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical
notation editor for Linux.

   http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

This is a feature release; a brief list of new features is as follows:

    * Diatonic transpose
    * Fretboards
    * Marker ruler usability improvements
    * Multiple lines of lyrics
    * Highlight overlapping notes in notation editor
    * Better LilyPond output dialog, preview through Lilypond,
      print through LilyPond from segment and notation views
    * In-place LilyPond header value editing in LilyPond option dialog
    * Transposition of the staff shown in LilyPond output
    * Show current segment colour in raw note ruler, permit cycling
      through segments on single staff in notation
    * Menus and configuration dialog reorganised for easier access and
      greater clarity
    * Infrared remote control: Support for IRKick
    * Add track(s) in middle
    * Use RTC timer when recent kernel and ALSA versions are detected
    * Expanded documentation
    * Reorganised configuration dialog into standard/advanced options
    * Some revised example files
    * Nice new splash screen

A more detailed feature and bug-fix checklist for this release can be read at
http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Things+To+Do+for+1.6.0 .

For more information about Rosegarden and what it can do for you,
please see

   http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public License.


Chris



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