ROSEGARDEN-4 0.9.8 RELEASED =========================== The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of Rosegarden-4 0.9.8, an audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ This release is primarily focused on bugfix, performance and usability improvements over 0.9.7, including significant optimisations to the main editing canvas, sequencer and GUI memory leak fixes, faster and better notation editing and printing, and dozens of other fixes. It also contains a handful of new features including MIDI mixer window, ottava and fingering marks in notation, and a redesigned audio segment manager. Features of Rosegarden include: o Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors o MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK o Audio plugin support using LADSPA o Score interpretation of performance MIDI data o MIDI file I/O, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML export o Clear and consistent KDE-based user interface o Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability o User interface in Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish and Estonian, as well as UK and US English. Chris