12 Nov
2008
12 Nov
'08
4:53 a.m.
Quoth James Cameron at 2008-11-12 18:58...
Ugh. I'd use a prebuilt, rather than waste three
months.
That wasn't three solid months of trying, that's just how long
I've been
on the project. Gentoo ebuilds - especially for x86_64 systems - don't
always have the quality of binary builds on binary distributions. Hence
my problems.
I'm an occasional user of Rosegarden. I've
just tried Qtractor because
you mentioned it. I'm impressed. It starts far faster and feels more
responsive, but that's subjective, I didn't do a precise timing. It is
certainly cleaner and simpler.
Which suits me fine. I just want to play/record,
not fumble around with
software.
Quick summary of the difference ... Rosegarden has
notation editing,
score production, a matrix editor, a percussion matrix editor, a MIDI
event editor, segments that can be triggered by others. Qtractor lacks
these, or I could not find them. Do you need them? It depends on how
important they are to your workflow.
None of these are really too important,
although the matrix editing
would be handy. But I can overcome that by using Hydrogen - I have no
issues with using more than one bit of software at a time. After all, I
used to do this with LOTS of hardware.
Cheers
M
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