3 Dec
2002
3 Dec
'02
5:23 a.m.
This should really be on rosegarden-user. I'm cc'ing it now, and
setting Reply-To: to go there. I don't want to clutter up LAU with
RG-specific stuff, but I will reply briefly to each of your points
here just because I don't want to leave the LAU subscribers thinking
Rosegarden is no use for anything at all. I'll assume here that
you're using a version at least as recent as 0.8.
Silvan wrote:
I'm having a bit of trouble with the whole
interface paradigm too.
I think your real problem is that we haven't provided any user
documentation for anything except the notation editor yet.
If I start from scratch, I create a segment exactly
one measure long.
If you click-and-drag with the pencil tool, you should be able to
drag out segments of whatever length you like. They don't have to be
in multiples of a bar, either -- for example you can hold down Shift
to have no snap-to-grid at all. You can also create segments by
clicking and dragging with the middle mouse button using the arrow
(select) tool.
Seems the "join" tool would let me merge
segments, but it doesn't
work. I can't find any way to combine segments.
Select them all, then use the Segments | Collapse Segments menu
function. (We will probably rename it to something more obvious
soon.)
Should the Segments -> Auto Split item turn an
imported monosegment
into one segment per measure? It doesn't seem to do anything.
It breaks a segment on silent bars, as you discovered.
Um... There should be a way to move the blue
"play from here" bar by
hand, instead of having to futz with the transport buttons.
You need to "Show Rulers" from the Settings menu, then you can
click on a ruler to position the playback pointer immediately.
Also, playback should stop at the end of the
song. It seems to continue on forever.
It does stop at the end of the song, it's just that the end of the
song is a marker that by default is something like 100 bars from
the start. The GUI for moving this marker is not really there yet,
but the Edit | Change Composition Duration menu option will do it,
rather clumsily.
What I wanted to do after I created the first
one-measure segment was
drag the right side of the thing out several measures.
That's what the resize tool should do.
For example, select the first one, then shift-click
three segments
over. It should grab all the ones in between.
Shift-click (with the arrow tool) does individual multi-select,
the function that you expect ctrl-click to do. You can also drag
out a rectangle with the arrow tool to select everything in it.
Now say I have three measures in four tracks that I
want to copy. It
seems I need to do a lot of stuff by hand.
You can select all the segments in a track by clicking on the
track name button at the left, but you can't yet select all the
segments in more than one track, no.
That, or some easy facility for splitting off
everything below
middle C and dumping it into a separate track.
Yeah, that's a basic function we lack (even Rosegarden 2.1 had
that).
Now that I consider it, another thing you can do with
Cakewalk's
track/number highlighter thingie is that the Staff view will combine
all selected staffs into one editor.
Well you can open multiple segments in a notation editor, though
they will all be on separate staffs. Just select them all then
use the Open in Notation Editor function...
Chris