[LAU] Qtractor vs Rosegarden

[david]

Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
>> Matthew Smith wrote:
>>> Just out of interest, what - if any - are the pros and cons of
>>> Rosegarden versus Qtractor?  For myself, as an unsophisticated user, is
>>> Qtractor (as it appears) all I'll ever need?
>> major qtractor cons;)
>>
>> - no tempo/key-signature map
>> - no score/notation editor
>> - no automation
>> - no plugin latency/delay compensation
>>
>> however these are all features that will be addressed in the future
>> (except score/notation; that won't happen sorry:)
> 
> Rosegarden's notation view is one feature of this program that I could not 
> give up. I have been also a Cakewalk/Sonar user under windows for a long 
> time, using it's staff view a lot. 
> 
> In both programs I don't use the notation view as a score desktop publishing 
> engine, because a real score editor needs many features that these programs 
> lack. But it may be a very nice representation of MIDI tracks, if you record 
> the MIDI tracks with a metronome, or create it from scratch. It is not that I 
> dislike the piano-roll representations, but I feel much more comfortable with 
> the score for visual inspection of the music. I can locate very quickly where 
> I've made a mistake without having to press the play button. That's because 
> I'm very used to scores, of course. 

I use Rosegarden. The piano-roll presentation seems like the most 
useless way to work with music that I can imagine.

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David
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