On Tuesday 20 Dec 2005 19:29, Rob wrote: > I'm very happy that Rosegarden > will deal with MIDI, digital audio and scoring. > > Wish it also had a "mod file" type of interface so that I could > define patterns of music and incorporate them into my > compositions by reference rather than a ton of copying and > pasting every time I make one change to a drum line It sort of does. ?You can have segments triggered by individual notes with pitches and durations adjusted to match the triggering notes, and that allows you to do a fairly limited sort of pattern-based composition. ?There are various reasons why it's limited; the main one is that nobody ever requests improvements to it (perhaps because almost nobody knows the feature is there in the first place). ?I'd like to see some of those requests -- almost any improvement you can imagine is likely to be easier to implement than the original feature was. Chris