Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > After many attempts at building Rosegarden, both with the Gentoo ebuilds > and now by hand, with updates to KDE libraries, etc., it still crashes. > Too much time wasted, three months on and I still haven't made a note > of music. > > I have now moved onto Qtractor - this was mentioned in an earlier thread > and appealed to me as it is not infected with KDEitis. > > Qtractor builds, it runs, it doesn't crash (yet). Woohoo! > > Having had a quick look over it, the interface looks cleaner and less > overwhelming than Rosegarden. > > Just out of interest, what - if any - are the pros and cons of > Rosegarden versus Qtractor? For myself, as an unsophisticated user, is > Qtractor (as it appears) all I'll ever need? > major qtractor cons;) - no tempo/key-signature map - no score/notation editor - no automation - no plugin latency/delay compensation however these are all features that will be addressed in the future (except score/notation; that won't happen sorry:) whether you're unsophisticated enough, you'll find qtractor quick and dirty, mostly targeted as a prototype recorder and arranger. cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
