17 Oct
2009
17 Oct
'09
8:01 p.m.
Message: 10
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:20:38 +0200
From: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter(a)plaetinck.be>
Subject: [LAU] rosegarden midi editor woes
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
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Hi guys,
I'm using rosegarden 1.7.3 (=latest release)
I think this is the best tool to do midi editing for drums on Linux
(please tell me if I'm wrong), but it does do some weird things which
get on my nerves:
- inability to properly select (groups of) notes: frequently it selects
notes I didn't click, or it selects a group when I just want one
note, etc
I don't see this behaviour with a proper zoom. BTW, a good trick is Shift +
click in the piano roll (say C1):
All the C1 notes will be selected.
- inability to properly insert notes: when i insert 1
1/32 note, and
then want to do one next to it, it removes the one i just insert
(even with quantize set to 1/32)
Again an improper zoom level? Anyway, what editor do you use? The percussion
matrix editor I guess? I like more the matrix editor even for drums. I think
it responds better with low zoom levels.
- copy paste behavior: when pasting, it pastes the
notes at the
beginning of the song (is this pebcak?)
Yes, you can move forwards and backwards the edit cursor with the right and
left arrows.
Notes will be pasted at this point.
- when zooming in/out, the song jumps back to the
beginning, even if
the 'time pointer' is somewhere else.
The zoom focus point is the edit cursor.
i could mention some more things, it only takes me a
couple of minutes
to start hitting time-wasting oddities.
anyone had similar issues? can it be solved? is there something better
then rosegarden?
I love hydrogen to edit drums. You can use 'klick -T -f /path/to/tempomap'
(klick as master jack and reading a tempo map in text mode, check klick) and
choose Jack Transport in hydrogen if you don't want a fixed tempo.
i tried openoctave midi but found it to be even more
buggy then rosegarden (doesn't even render
correctly)
thanks for your help
Dieter
Cheers! Pablo