Re: [LAU] [Rosegarden-user] note duration-rests

Hi Beh, I recently started learning Rosegarden myself, and I found that using the "Notation Editor": starting with a new project, middle-click and drag to create a "segment" of the desired length (e.g. a few bars if your song is short, or more if it's long) then click on the new (yellowish) segment and press "n" (lowercase N, shortcut for the notation editor, or you can right click and say "open in Notation Editor"). There, you'll see on the left-hand-side of the page you can choose the duration of your note. Then you select the "pencil" tool and click it somewhere to "record" the note. Rosegarden will automatically show the "rests" remaining in the bar. I'm not sure how to insert additional rests in between notes, as I haven't needed to do that sort of thing yet. If you're intending to record "live" input from a computer keyboard, I don't think that's possible. The normal way MIDI note duration is provided is by a MIDI controller keyboard performing a timing operation, then encoding that info into the midi stream along with the note pitch and velocity info. A computer keyboard doesn't have hardware to determine the timing and velocity of your key pressed. I guess perhaps somebody somewhere might have written a MIDI simulator "driver" for ordinary computer keyboards, but I'm not aware of one for linux. It would be fun though. Still, if you can get a real MIDI keyboard, it'll be preferable. You don't need anything expensive, e.g. I'm using an old Kurzweil MIDIboard built back in 1987 and it still works, pretty cheap. Cheers, Peter. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:50 AM, beh estelah <behestelah(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to learn Rosegarden. > I do not have an external midi keyboard. > When I use the computer keyboard to play music, Rosegarden does register the > notes, however it does not register the duration of notes and the rests. > Is there any way to register the duration of notes and rests?