On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:47:42 -0500 (CDT) Brent Busby <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Will Godfrey wrote: > > > Just seen this and thought it might be of interest. > > > > > > The Rosegarden team is pleased to announce the release of version 15.10 > > of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor > > for Linux. One tester comments, "You'll be pleased to know that this > > puts Rosegarden ahead of all the other sequencers I've tried for all CCs > > including bank changes, program changes and NRPNs." > > > > http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ > > > > With this major bugfix release, Ted Felix untangled a very old problem > > with instrument parameters that stumped quite a few developers over the > > years. Tito Latini joined the project briefly, and went on a bit of a > > rampage, fixing bug after bug. Yves got in on the effort, and > > contributed several important fixes. Even Michael wrote a little code > > here and there. > > > > This is one of the best releases we've turned out in years, and we > > strongly encourage everyone to upgrade immediately! > > > [...] > > The reason I've never been a Rosegarden user is because I've never found > anywhere in the program where you can do generic (non-GM) Midi. I do > mostly very electronic stuff where the idea of banks and presets that > have to be assigned to a particular instrument sound with a well known > instrument name isn't very useful to the kinds of patches and samples > I'd use. But there doesn't seem to be anywhere in Rosegarden where you > can just do regular ad hoc this-bank/program-is-whatever-I-say-it-is > style Midi. In the track playback parameters change the device from 'General MIDI device' to (say) 'Synth Plugin'. I actually have entries in 'Manage MIDI Devices' called, 'Yoshimi', 'Qsynth', 'Hydrogen' etc. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
