28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
12:40 p.m.
The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of
Rosegarden-4 0.9.5, an audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor
for Linux. To download the source package, go to the homepage at
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/
This release contains a host of new features and improvements
over the previous release, and is nearly feature complete for 1.0.
Features include:
o Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors
o MIDI and audio playback and recording using JACK
o Audio plugin support using LADSPA
o Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
o MIDI file I/O, Csound and Lilypond export
o Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
o Translations into Russian, Spanish, German, French and Welsh
New features since 0.9.1 include:
o Better sequencer comms layer for much more robust MIDI sequencing
o Control rulers for editing velocity and control events
o Controller management for MIDI devices
o Event list editor with some actual editing capabilities
o Event filter on current selection
o Classification of audio plugins using liblrdf
o Percussion and variations support in bank management
o Import Studio from File
o Markers
o File merging for all file types
o Notation rendering using real scalable fonts (one supplied)
o Multi-page notation rendering with panner
o Much better score printing
o Print Preview
o Segment colouring
o Configurable metronome
o Better Lilypond export
o MusicXML export that works, though it's still pretty basic
o Can now drag notes around in notation view
o Several new .rgd device files
o Better handling of MIDI devices that come and go
o Much improved audio scheduling infrastructure
o Ability to drag-and-drop audio files onto segment canvas
o Many optimisations throughout
Chris