The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of Rosegarden-4 0.9.5, an audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor for Linux. To download the source package, go to the homepage at http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/ This release contains a host of new features and improvements over the previous release, and is nearly feature complete for 1.0. Features include: o Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors o MIDI and audio playback and recording using JACK o Audio plugin support using LADSPA o Score interpretation of performance MIDI data o MIDI file I/O, Csound and Lilypond export o Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability o Translations into Russian, Spanish, German, French and Welsh New features since 0.9.1 include: o Better sequencer comms layer for much more robust MIDI sequencing o Control rulers for editing velocity and control events o Controller management for MIDI devices o Event list editor with some actual editing capabilities o Event filter on current selection o Classification of audio plugins using liblrdf o Percussion and variations support in bank management o Import Studio from File o Markers o File merging for all file types o Notation rendering using real scalable fonts (one supplied) o Multi-page notation rendering with panner o Much better score printing o Print Preview o Segment colouring o Configurable metronome o Better Lilypond export o MusicXML export that works, though it's still pretty basic o Can now drag notes around in notation view o Several new .rgd device files o Better handling of MIDI devices that come and go o Much improved audio scheduling infrastructure o Ability to drag-and-drop audio files onto segment canvas o Many optimisations throughout Chris
