| Rosegarden | |
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 Rosegarden 1.0 under Linux |
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| Developer | Chris Cannam, Richard Bown, Guillaume Laurent |
| Latest release | 1.6.1 / December 21, 2007 |
| OS | Linux |
| Genre | Digital Audio Workstation |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.rosegardenmusic.com |
Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and KDE. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free replacement for such applications as Cubase. Rosegarden does not provide a built-in software synthesizer, so it requires a hardware MIDI synthesizer, a soft synthesizer such as FluidSynth or TiMidity++, or a synthesizer plugin in order to make any sound from MIDI compositions. Recent versions of Rosegarden support the DSSI software synthesizer plugin interface, and can use some Windows VST plugins through an adapter. The current Rosegarden program was originally named Rosegarden-4, to distinguish it from a previous program by the same authors called Rosegarden 2.1. Rosegarden 2.1 is very limited, but works stably on a wide variety of Unix-like operating systems and other platforms such as OpenVMS. In contrast, because Rosegarden-4 uses the Linux ALSA system, it only runs in a very limited manner on non-Linux systems [1]. The Rosegarden project was started in 1993 at the University of Bath. Rosegarden 2.1 was released under the GPL in 1997; Rosegarden-4 began in April 2000. Version 1.0 was released on February 14, 2005 (St. Valentine's Day) and version 1.2.4 on July 14, 2006 (Bastille Day). Rosegarden's lead developers are Chris Cannam, Richard Bown and Guillaume Laurent.
Features
- MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
- Piano-roll, score, event list and track overview editors
- DSSI synth and audio effects plugin support, including Windows VST effects and instrument support via dssi-vst
- LADSPA audio effects plugin support
- JACK transport support for synchronisation with other software
- Ability to build and run without JACK, for MIDI-only use
- Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
- Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
- Triggered segments for pattern sequencing & performable ornaments
- Audio and MIDI mixers
- MIDI and Hydrogen file import
- MIDI, Csound, LilyPond and MusicXML file export (including PostScript and PDF output file generation of score)
- User interface translations for Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Catalan, and Finnish, as well as UK and US English
- Help documentation available substantially or entirely translated into German, Swedish and Japanese as well as English
See also
| Free software Portal |
External links
- Rosegarden home page
- Rosegarden download page (Sourceforge.net)
- Rosegarden user/dev forum - search or post questions here.
- Rosegarden Development Wiki - Official Development Site
