24 Feb
2006
24 Feb
'06
1:49 p.m.
On 2/24/06, Rob <lau(a)kudla.org> wrote:
On Fri February 24 2006 11:36, Arnold Krille wrote:
Well, I don't think that it can be labeled as full-featured as
Rosegarden et al, but seq24 does a decent job, although it is not so
much linear as it is pattern-based. It seems pretty light to me, and
if you're using a light desktop/wm, you probably don't mind missing
some features, I would think... I don't know, I had a lot of issues
with Rosegarden and the way it manages the instruments and how it
never remembered them if I re-open the file again at a later date, but
I think it's a great application just the same. But I'll likely use
seq24 myself, as it seems more like my hardware-based sequencer/synth.
So, to the OP, there's an option to look into if you can deal with
loop/pattern-based sequencers.
Dana
Yes, it is: Rosegarden doesn't need KDE (at
least if the
programmers did their job). It just needs kdelibs which is
much smaller and faster to compile/install than whole KDE.
I don't know whether this means the programmers did their job or
not, but when I fire up rosegarden on my machine, it launches
kdeinit, dcopserver, and all that other cruft if it's not
already running.
So even if you're running GNOME or IceWM or whatever, you are
also running KDE while you're running Rosegarden, just not the
desktop, panel, et al.
I personally have no problem with that, because (1) I run KDE
already and (2) Rosegarden has never been advertised as a
lightweight anything, but I see their point. I doubt other
full-featured sequencer apps are much lighter.
Rob